The Ontological Argument (Simple)
The ontological Argument in simple terms on a mind map
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- Created on: 18-03-14 14:21
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- The Ontological Argument
- Try and show the existence is a natural part of God's being
- Analytic argument - the premise and the conclusion are not based upon external evidence or experience
- Anselm
- Imagine his addressing this argument to a fool
- a priori argument
- A being than which nothing can be conceived
- Gaunilo
- Mutatis Mutandis (by substitution of terms)
- The Perfect Island
- In defense of the fool
- Anselm's First Response
- Islands are contingent (things that rely on other things to exist)
- It is non-contradictory to deny the existence of the Island
- Kant
- He rejected that existence is a predicate or perfection
- X does not exist means X lacks existence
- Try and show the existence is a natural part of God's being
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