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7. How is anthropomorphism used in relation to the argument?
Anthropomorphism is used in relation to this argument to compare human form and characteristics to God's. For example in the passage Damea imagines that the spirit of God has human ideas or bears resemblance to our spirit hence the Anthropomorphism.
8. How is analogy used in relation to the argument?
Analogy is used to compare human beings with God where in the passage Philo says that we ought not to imagine that the perfection of God and that of man can be compared. This is evident in the comparison in the blood circulation in man, and that in frogs and even the circulation of sap in plants, an analogy that Philo says "is confessedly liable to error and uncertainty."
9. What is the difference between analogical and logical reasoning?
Analogical reasoning is where one compares between two things that are similar while logical reasoning is where one gives sensible information which is only based on facts.
10. What are philo's views concerning Cleanthes' argument?
Philo views Cleanthes as a person who has some idea of what he is saying about...
He also views Cleanthes' arguments and analogies as wanting in substance.
(… and those who hastily followed the imperfect analogy, are found, by more accurate experiments, to have been mistaken).
11. The word sophism gets used a few times. What does it mean?
Sophism means incorrect argument that seems clever and well thought out but tends to either mislead someone or deceive someone by presenting a twisted version of reality.
12. What does Philo represent?
Philo represents people who believe in the existence of a being called God and at the same time they don't believe in the omnipresence of God. He has no stand or rather his stand and take are quite contradictory to his philosophy.
(…and there is no more difficulty in conceiving, that the several elements, from an internal unknown cause, may fall into the most exquisite arrangement, than to conceive that their ideas, in the great, universal mind, from a like internal, unknown cause, fall into that arrangement. The equal possibility of both these suppositions is allowed.)
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