1.5 Arguments based on Reason QUOTES

Question 1

10 words, Psalm 14:1-3

Answer 1

“The fool says in his heart “there is no God”.”

Question 2

25 words, Anselm

Answer 2

“There is doubt that there exists a being, than which nothing greater can be concieved, and it exists both in understanding and in reality.”

Question 3

47 words, Gaunilo

Answer 3

“If a man should try to prove to me by such reasoning that this island truly exists, and that its existence should no longer be doubted, either I should believe that he was jesting, or I know not which I ought to regard as the greater fool.”

Question 4

32 words, St Thomas Aquinas

Answer 4

“Because we do not know the esscence of God, the proposition God exists is not self-evidence to us; but needs to be demonstrated by things that are more known to us.”

Question 5

5 words, Immanual Kant

Answer 5

“All existential propositions are synthetic.”

Question 6

26 words, Bertrand Russell

Answer 6

“To say something exists is to say it is instantiated, or that it actually does appear in existence, not that it is existence to predicate.”

Question 7

24 words, Alvin Plantinga

Answer 7

“No matter how great the island is, no matter how many nubian maidens and dancing girls adorn it, there could always be a greater”