... of an identity claim: the author of The Apology is the author of The Republic. When I say that the 1) author of The Apology was a student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle, it is identical to saying that the 2) author of The Republic was a student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle. Notice how the truth-value remains the same. I should be able to do the same thing with the words "pious" and "god-loved" as I did with the expressions "author of The Apology" and "author of The ... to Euthyphro's beliefs and contradictory. At Euthyphro 11d, Euthyphro states that he believes the piou...

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Does God Exist? There are many varying arguments for the existence of God. These arguments are either a priori, understood independent of worldly experience and observation (Ontological Argument), or a posteriori, dependent on experience and based on observations of how the world is (Cosmological and Teleological Arguments). For my first basis for the existence of God I will use the a posteriori, ontological arguments. Ontological arguments are a priori, which show that God exists without appealing to ... arguments were started at the time the questions of the universe were first asked. The e...

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