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01 Oct 1979-Sophia
TL;DR: This article examined the argument for the existence of God in three different basic possible forms of inference: a deductive inference, an inductive inference and, following the terminology of Charles S. Peirce, an abductive inference.
Abstract: I want to examine the argument for the existence of God, which Immanuel Kant called, "the oldest, the clearest, and the most accordant with the common reason of mankind" 1 _ the argument from design. My plan is to examine the argument cast in three different basic possible forms of inference. I shall cast it in the form of a deductive inference, an inductive inference, and following the terminology of Charles S. Peirce, an abductive inference. I shall not be so much concerned with the validity, soundness or strength of the argument as with t h e logical moves in this classical argument. This type of analysis will, I hope, make these logical moves clear, or at least clearer. Let us begin with a deductive form of the argument from design.

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