Meditation V- of the Essence of Material Things; and, Once more of God, that He exists

Meditation V  - of the Essence of Material Things; and, Once more of God, that He exists

Ontological Argument

• If I conceive a shape, it has certain immutable truths about it (Pythagoras theorem)
  • But you get this from the external world
• No, as I can imagine shapes I have never experienced and still work out truths of them
• God is the most supremely perfect being
• Existence is a perfection
• Trying to separate existence from God is like trying to separate a mountain from a valley.
• Therefore, God must exist (a priori analytic truth)

Problems

• Existence is not a…