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Contingency, in the Cosmological Argument

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Louis Leahy
Affiliation:
Professor of Philosophy, Pontifical College St Pius X, Dalat University, Vietnam

Extract

I can illustrate what seems to me your fallacy. Every man who exists has a mother, and it seems to me your argument is that therefore the human race must have a mother, but obviously the human race has not a mother. B. Russell

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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