Questions tagged [ontological-argument]
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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 like:
a necessary unicorn is possible.
if a…
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Variation of Ontological argument
what do you think of this variation of the ontological argument(is it an absolute proof?)
1)God is the greatest being conceivable. A key part of this is being all powerful(omnipotent)
2)God can be conceived of in the mind.
3)However God lacks any…
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'If we can conceive God existing but he doesn't exist, then we can conceive a thing greater than him.'
Source: 6 minutes 50 seconds juncture; Lecture 2, Video 5 (transcription);
MITx: 24.00x Introduction to Philosophy; by MIT Associate Prof Caspar Hare PhD (in Philosophy; Princeton)
There are some very strange phrases in here, most notably,
God…
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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 "that which nothing more horrible can be conceived"?
A modern…
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What is the response to this objection to the ontological argument?
I'm trying to make sense of the ontological argument for god's existence.
So how I understand it... we define god as a "maximally great being". And the argument implies that "maximally great" includes existent by definition.
So couldn't I define…
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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 how a contradiction is never "left over" after we…
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