Question

Please formalize the argument seen in the following passage:

look round the world: contemplate the whole and every part of it: you will find it to be nothing but one great machine, subdivided into an infinite number of lesser machines, which again admit of subdivisions to a degree beyond what human senses and faculties can trace and explain. all these various machines, and even their most minute parts, are adjusted to each other with an accuracy which ravishes into admiration all men who have ever contemplated them. the curious adapting of means to ends, throughout all nature, resembles exactly, though it much exceeds, the productions of human contrivance; of human designs, thought, wisdom, and intelligence. since, therefore, the effects resemble each other, we are led to infer, by all the rules of analogy, that the causes also resemble; and that the author of nature is somewhat similar to the mind of man, though possessed of much larger faculties, proportioned to the grandeur of the work which he has executed. by this argument a posteriori, and by this argument alone, do we prove at once the existence of a deity, and his similarity to human mind and intelligence

Answer 1

This is an analogical argument. Following is its representation:

1. Machines and world are quite similar in their minute parts are adjusted with accuracy to each other and there is adopting means to ends.

2. Machines are product of the human minds.

3. The world is a design by something similar to a human mind.

Step-by-step explanation:

This is an analogical argument. Following is its representation:

1. Machines and world are quite similar in their minute parts are adjusted with accuracy to each other and there is adopting means to ends.

2. Machines are product of the human minds.

3. The world is a design by something similar to a human mind.

The strength of the analogical argument mainly depends on the relevance of the shared properties of the targeted properties.