✅design arguments based on reason

Question 1

What is Descartes ontological argument?

Answer 1

A supremely perfect being, therefore he possesses all perfections, including existence, which is a perfect in itself. Existence is a predicate of a perfect being. Therefore GOD EXISTS.

Question 2

What is a predicate

Answer 2

To predicate something is it ascribe to something a quality or property

Question 3

What is Descartes triangle?

Answer 3

Existence cannot be separated fro god, like a triangle cannot be separated form 3 angles. It is not less impossible to conceive a god, that is, a being of supremely perfect,

Question 4

What are the benefits of Descartes argument

Answer 4

It cannot be applied to objects in space, therefore can’t use gaunilos island,
Only god can have absolute perfection, there cannot be 2 absolutes.

Question 5

What does Kant say about Descartes argument

Answer 5

If you have a triangle, then it must have three sides, but if you do NOT have a triangle, you neither have it’s three sides, not it’s three angles.
If you accept there is a god, then it is logical to accept also his existence, but oi DOMT HAVE TO ACCEPT THAT THERE IS A GOD.
Existence isn’t a predicate, you can describe something perfectly , and then add that it exists,n

Question 6

Who says existence is not a predicate?

Answer 6

Kant

Question 7

Kant argument

Answer 7

Existence is not a predicate. Adding reality to a concept doesn’t make it any better,
“A hundred real Thaler doesn’t contain the least Connie more than a hundred possible Thaler”

Question 8

Who argues against Kant?

Answer 8

Davies. He said there is a difference between real and not really Thaler. The real Thaler you can spend. They are real.

Question 9

What does Bertrand Russell think?

Answer 9

Argues that anselms use on the notion of necessary existence represents a syllogism. Existence cannot be a re-educate, as if it was, it could be contracted than men exist. Santa Claus was a man, therefore Santa Claus exists.
Existence is not a property of things, it’s a numerical concept.

Question 10

What is a syllogism?

Answer 10

The interference of one proposition from two premises.

Eg all men were Greek, all men are mortal, therefor all Greeks are mortal.

Question 11

What does David Hume think?

Answer 11

Argued that the description of a thing can contain every detail possible, but we must go beyond the description itself to determine where a thing exists or not,
A think cannot “define itself into existence”, no matter how perfect it is.

Question 12

Who said you can’t “define it into existence”

Answer 12

Hume

Question 13

Strengths of the ontological argument

Answer 13

The conclusion is certain 
Provides a starting point for everyone
Aquinas supports it
No empirical evidence 
You cannot define god, have to accept the idea of god
Necessary existence

Question 14

Who said “there is nothing in the mind that that is not first in the senses”

Answer 14

Aquinas

Question 15

How did Stephen Davis challenge kants criticism?

Answer 15

Existence does add something to the definition, a real hundred Thaler.

Question 16

What in anselms quote?

Answer 16

That than which nothing greater can be conceived.

Question 17

What is the ontological argument?

Answer 17

A priori and deductive argument for the existence of god, not the making of the world. It shows it is illogical to assume that god Doesn’t exist due to his nature.

Question 18

What was the challenge to anselms?

Answer 18

From Gaunilo
Anselm said his argument was strong enough to persuade to ‘fools’ in psalms 14, who said there was no God. Gaunilo wrote on ‘behalf of the fool’, and accused anselm of making a legitimate lead from existence in the mind to exist in reality.
Example of th perfect island. Imagined there was a perfect island, it must exist in reality, furthermore, Gaunilo said that in order for this perfect island to be perfect, it must be unlike any other existing island, therefore couldn’t have actual existence but could only exists in the imagination.

Question 19

What was anselms appreach to Gaunilo?

Answer 19

Gaunilo misunderstood his argument. Things such as us,ands are contingent. They don’t have to exist for us to imagine them. god is by definition deifferent because he isn’t a thing. God is necessary and logical which means he must exist,
Islands have no intrinsic value

Question 20

Why don’t islands have any intrinsic value?

Answer 20

As they can always be bettered and perfected.

Question 21

When WAs meditations written

Answer 21

1641

Question 22

What is the Cartesian circle?

Answer 22

God exists, he guarantees the clear and distinct rule. I clearly and distinctly perceive ghat god exists,

Question 23

What is anselms argument?

Proslogion 2

Answer 23

For him, faith is a starting point. God is TTWNCGBC. Even the unbeliever must have a definition of god in order to dismiss it as a concept.
If this definition is accepted, god must exist in reality, as that which exists in reality will always be regather than that which exists Presley in intellectu

Question 24

What does anselm think

Proslogion 3

Answer 24

It is possible to conceive if a being, the Costner of which is necessary.god must be such a being if he is TTWNGCBC, this is because a being which possesses necessary existence will always be breathed that that of a contingent being.

Question 25

Who is anselm

Answer 25

Benedictine monk and Archbishop of Canterbury

Question 26

What was anselms starting point?

Answer 26

Propose a definition of the word “god.” Form this pint he tried to show that it is absurd to suggest that god doesn’t exist,

Question 27

What does plantinga think

Answer 27

Argument may Gail as a proof, it shows that it is reasonable to believe in god.

Question 28

What does Aquinas think

Answer 28

If we understand gods nature, then we’d know that gods nature DOES exist. But because we DONT know god nature, we have to treat it as synthetic.
In order to know god, we must have experienced him, and if we experienced him we should know he exists, but we don’t, as it takes away our choice and free will.

Question 29

What is psalms 14?

Answer 29

“The food hath said in his heart, there is not god”

Question 30

Who believed there is no definition of god, as he is a mystery?

Answer 30

Aquinas

Question 31

Weaknesses of the ontological argument

Answer 31

It was an argument that was for a faith seeking understanding
Russell denied that the existence could operate as a predicate.
Dawkins, the argument is infantile, and the language of the playground.
Anselm defined god as existing. Why can’t there be other definitions,

Question 32

What does Norman Malcom say

Answer 32

Yes to god. God is a special case, as normally existence is contingent yet god is necessary entirely different. One analytic truth exists necessarily.

Question 33

What is kants book?

Answer 33

Critique of pure reason

Question 34

What is kants conclusion?

Answer 34

If gods necessary existence is analytical, it seasons tell is anything if he exists or not, if synthetical, then nothing necessary about gods existnace as only analytic statements would be logically true.
All statements about the existence are synthetically verifiable or falsifiable by experience

Question 35

What does Pierre Gassendi think about ontological argument

Answer 35

Wrote and directly criticised Descartes, something exists or does not, it is only relevant to discuss the perfection of something if it is exists, can’t say something is perfect if we have never SEEN IR BEING PERFECT,