kants criticisms of ontological arguemnt
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- Kants Critique of the Ontological Argument
- argued against descartes version of ontological argument
- 'existence is not a predicate'
- kant said that existence is not a characteristic of somehting.
- a predicate of somehting describes what something is like
- existence is not something that describes what it is like
- existence is not something that can tell us how we can identify it
- existence is not something that describes what it is like
- 'existence is not a predicate'
- When we think about god
- whether we think about anselms 'which nothing greater can be thought'
- or
- Descartes sum of all the perfections
- We are thinking of a concept
- we can say that a triangle has a predicate of having three sides and 180'
- but, we would have to find out whether the triangle we are imagining in our minds is actualised
- we can say that a triangle has a predicate of having three sides and 180'
- predicate of god isnt 'exists'
- Adding 'exists' to concept of god doesnt tell us anything about god just that he exists
- God's prediactes are omnipotence, omnibenevolence, omnipresence
- A hundred real dollars contain no more than a hundred possible dollars
- however, it could be argued in repsonse to kant, gods existence isnt contingent, so he has a different existence to anything else, god exists necessarily
- argued against descartes version of ontological argument
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