Ontological Flashcards
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Saint Anselms definition of god
“That than no greater which can be conceived”
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Anselms contradiction of the atheist
Reductio ad absurdum
Anyone who claims to understand god definition and rejects his existence is stating a fallacy
As it is greater to exist in reality than in the mind
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Ganillos island
Imagine the greatest possible island = proof you cant dream anything into existence as island isn’t real
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Plantinga
Island = contingent God = neccesary
Therefore incomparable
+ perfect island is subjective
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Decartes
“Whatever belongs to the existence of something cannot be denied of it”
As a triangle has to have three sides, god must have existence
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Aquinas
A priori arguments for gods existence fail as we cannot define him with our inferior human understanding
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Kant
“Existence is not a predicate”
Existence adds nothing to the essence of a thing - eg) red coat analogy
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Plantinga and infinity
There are infinite numbers of universes, all possibilities are actual somewhere
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Malcolm
Existence is not a perfection, but the logical impossibility of non existence
