five ways (13TH CENTURY).
The five methods employed by St Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274) in his attempt to prove the existence of God by reference to natural facts about the universe, in Summa Theologiae.
The five ways were: argument from design; the cosmological argument; the degrees of perfection argument; the First Cause theory; the First Mover theory; and natural theology.
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