Anselm: the ontological argument
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- Created on: 26-03-14 08:53
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- Anselm: The ontological argument
- God cannot not exist as it would be impossible for us to conceive of something that great and powerful.
- "that which nothing greater that can be concieved."
- A analytic proposition is an argument that is true by nature, therefore there is nothing needed to tests this proposition
- For example, bald men have no hair
- Anselm said that "God exists," is an analyic statment
- Gaunilo disagreed with this and used the island analogy to explain this
- A synthetic statment is something that you have to know to experience.
- Descartes says that God must have created the universe because the universe is "perfection."
- He belived that existence was a "predicate of God" as having three sides was the predicate of a triangle.
- Kant criticses this by saying that existence isn't a predicate.
- Saying something exists cannot be an analytic statment it must be synthetic as it is from experience
- Kant criticses this by saying that existence isn't a predicate.
- He belived that existence was a "predicate of God" as having three sides was the predicate of a triangle.
- His argument for God is a priori and ontological because it relies on logic without imperical evidence.
- God cannot not exist as it would be impossible for us to conceive of something that great and powerful.
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