Ductive Arguments Quotes

Question 1

Reason + Faith
Anselm

Answer 1

“For i do not seek to understand that i may believe, but i believe in order to understand. For this also i believe, that unless i believed, i should not understand”

Question 2

Atheists are fools
Anselm

Answer 2

“Truly there is a God, although the fool has said in his heart, ‘there is no God’”

Question 3

Second Form (Proslogion 3)-God as a necessary being
Anselm

Answer 3

“God cannot be conceived not to exist”

Question 3

First Form (Proslogion 2)- God as the greatest possible being
Anselm

Answer 3

“That than which nothing greater can be conceived”

Question 4

Triangle Analogy-You cannot seperate gods existence from the ideas surrounding him
Descartes

Answer 4

“From the fact that i cannot conceive a moutain without a valley… i cannot conceive God without existence, it follows rhat existence is inseperable from Him, and hence that He really exists”

Question 5

God is perfect
Descartes

Answer 5

“The idea of God… i one which i find within me as surely as the idea of any shape or number”

Question 6

God must be unlimited
Normal Malcom

Answer 6

“His existence must be logicsally necessary or logically impossible”