fittingness
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the quality of being suitable
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they had to prove their fitness for the position
Justin Martyr and Epiphanius of Salamis employ arguments from fittingness – in their view, it is more elegant that there be a symmetry between the virgin that caused the fall and the virgin that caused salvation.
Arguments from fittingness are also used in ethics and aesthetics in the ancient world.
Epistemological arguments from fittingness are associated with medieval philosophy, MONDIN, B. "Convenientia, Argumentum Ex."
Print. Arguments from fittingness follow a basic structure: God is, God is good, http://www.newadvent.org/summa/1006.htm God made the world, a good God would make the world as perfectly as possible.