36 Arguments for the Existence of God

Loss or impairment of the ability to use or comprehend words.  p.5

hobby  p.7

Freed from slavery.  p. 8

A feeling of cold in the hands or feet symptomatic of people with hypothyroidism.  p.8

Designed for or understood only by the specially initiated; private, secret.  p.9

• A rain cloud, thunderhead; a figure (as a disk) in an art work suggesting radiant light about the head of a divinity, saint or soveriegn.          
• p. 10

(plural of apex) the highest point; peak.  p. 10

Made to individual order; custom made (a bespoke jacket).  p. 10

(pedant) noun - a person who makes a show of knowledge; a formal, uninspired teacher.  p. 17

Speaking or spoken with careless ease.  p. 17

Marked by capricious ill humor.  p. 18

• of or pertaining to ontology, the branch of metaphysics that studies the nature of existence or being as such; metaphysical: (Some of the U.S. founders held an ontological belief in natural rights.)
• ontology  (ɒnˈtɒlədʒɪ)  — n 1. philosophy:  the branch of metaphysics that deals with the nature of being 2. logic: the set of entities presupposed by a theory.  p. 19

teleology  (ˌtɛlɪˈɒlədʒɪ, ˌtiːlɪ-)  — n 1. philosophy a. the doctrine that there is evidence of purpose or design in the universe, and esp that this provides proof of the existence of a Designer b. the belief that certain phenomena are best explained in terms of purpose rather than cause c. See also final cause the systematic study of such phenomena 2. biology - the belief that natural phenomena have a predetermined purpose and are not determined by mechanical laws.  p. 19

Smallness of number or quantity.  p. 19

(syllogism) n. - a logical scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and minor premise and a conclusion that must be logically true if the premises are.  p. 19

sanction, approval; a license to print or publish; also, official approval of a publication by a censor. p. 25

marked with different colored spots.  p. 29

John Bordley Rawls (February 21, 1921 – November 24, 2002) was an American philosopher and a leading figure in moral and political philosophy. He held the James Bryant Conant University Professorship at Harvard University and the Fulbright Fellowship at Christ Church, Oxford.