Questions tagged [ontological-argument]
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Is Anselm's argument supposed to be understood in terms of hyperintensionality?
Hyperintensionality is something to do with e.g. the difference between, "I believe that Dean is Dean," vs., "I believe that Dean is Ackles." Generally, an operation X on A and B ...
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what is the definition of a necessary fact in the contingency argument?
how can we define a necessary fact in the contingency argument in a way which does not lead us to the ontological argument? (exists in all possible worlds)
the contingency argument is:
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In the argument of Contingency(Leibnizian Cosmological Argument) can a necessary existent have alternatives? [closed]
Hello I've got a question about Leibnizian Cosmological Argument, In the argument can a necessary existent have alternatives? Why yes and why not? And are numbers considered as alternatives to each ...
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That which nothing more horrible can be conceived?
In Anselm's ontological argument there is the concept of "that which nothing greater can be conceived" which he argues necessarily exists.
Can his argument also work for the concept of "...
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What logical arguments have been made to say an effect cannot be greater than its cause?
I'm currently writing a paper on Descartes argument for God based on his third meditation. One premise of the argument that seems fairly important is the claim that "no effect can be greater than ...
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Can anything be inherently great?
This post concerns St. Anselm's version of the ontological argument for the existence of God. Part of this argument concerns Anselm's definition of God, which is, in so many words, "that than ...
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Can you mathematically prove the existence of God?
So I came across this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0hxb5UVaNE), which claims to prove the existence of God using math.
I then searched and found stuff like this: mathematician Kurt Gödel's ...
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Does Descartes conclude that imperfection implies perfection?
In the third meditation, does Descartes' knowledge of his limitations, or his imperfections, lead to his conclusion that there must be something limitless, something perfect?
In his third meditation, ...
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What's to stop you from plugging in something else like a necessary being in the Modal Ontological argument?
I was looking at the Modal Ontological argument and I was wondering what stops the argument from not working when we plug in another necessary being. Such as a necessary unicorn. So the argument looks ...
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Do the derivation of the liar paradox, and the ontological argument, involve the same mistake?
Suppose you introduced the sentence, "This sentence implies a contradiction." Now, on its face, that sentence doesn't seem to imply anything (maybe not even itself) as such.
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Can someone formulate John Pollack's argument in understandable terms for laymen?
http://www.strongatheism.net/library/atheology/ontological_argument_for_nonexistence/
By the way, I am not asking whether this argument is sound or not. I just want to have it formulated in ...
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Is there any ackonowledgement and solution for the objection raised on ontological argument using problem of evil?
Ontological Argument, in its initial verison as presented by Anselm of Canterbury is as follows,
The first ontological argument in Western Christian tradition[i] was
proposed by Saint Anselm of ...
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The resemblance of 'being that exists' with the 'element' in the definition of a set
What exactly is the meaning of the term 'being that exists' which is associated with the argument from contingency. Can I equate this term with an abstract object (SEP) such as 'element' in the ...
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Existence being analytic of God vs. God being analytic of existence
Elsewhere, in light of the idea that understanding is not a species of knowledge but an epistemic genus parallel to knowledge, and then in terms of an understanding logic, I asked whether knowledge of ...
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Is the description "the nonexistence of which implies a contradiction" itself contradictory?
Part of the essence of the Hume-Kant counterargument against the ontological argument is that, as Hume put it, there is no being the nonexistence of which implies a contradiction. (Kant talks about ...
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