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Arguments from works of fiction

• Arguments from Sherlock Holmes stories
  • The Dog That Didn't Bark
  • Homes' "deductions" concerning Watson's Watch
• Most of the Arguments from Twelve Angry Men

Miscellaneous Arguments Concerning Social or Political Controversies

• Arguments that Laws Prohibiting Cannibus Use Should be Repealed
• Arguments that Public Education Should be Abolished
• Gutting's Argument concerning Experts and Climate Change

Miscellaneous Philosophical Arguments

• Arguments For and Against Hedonism
  • Tiberius' Argument Against Hedonism
• Socrates' Argument from Plato's Apology 27b–e
• An Argument from Book I of Plato's Republic
• The Proof From Plato's Phaedo that the Soul is Indescructable
• Ruth Chang's Arguments concerning Hard Choices

Arguments that Philosophy is Valuable

• Bertrand Russell's Arguments that Philosophy is Valuable
• Ayn Rand's Argument that Philosophy in Valuable

Arguments Concerning the Existence of God

Thomas Aquinas' Five Ways of Proving the Existence of God

• The First Way
  • The First Way with Objections
• The Second Way
  • The Second Way with Objections
• The Third Way
  • The Third Way with Objections
• The Fourth Way
  • The Fourth Way with Objections
• The Fifth Way
  • The Fifth Way with Objections
• All Five Ways
  • All Five Ways with Objections

William Lane Craig's "Kalam" Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God

• The Kalam Syllogism
• Craig's whole Kalam Argument
  • Craig's whole Kalam Argument with Objections
• Craig's Argument that the Cause of the Universe is Outside of Time
  • Craig's Argument that the Cause of the Universe is Outside of Time with Objection that the Kalam Syllogism is an Equivocation

The "Fine Tuning" Argument

• William Lane Craig's Version of the Fine Tuning Argument
  • Fine Tuning Argument with Objections
• Reductio ad Absurdum: the Finely-Tuned God Argument
  • Fine Tuning Argument with Objections and Finely-Tuned God Argument

Paley's Teleological Argument

• Paley's Watchmaker Analogy
  • Paley's Watchmaker Analogy with Objection