Where one or more statements to reach a logically certain conclusion.
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A Priori
Proceeding from a known or assumed cause to a necessarily related effect; deductive.
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Analytic
By definition it is true on it's own.
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'De Dicto'
Of words.
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'De Re'
Of reality.
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'In Intellectu'
In the mind.
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'In Re'
In reality.
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'The Proslogion'
Anselm's book
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Premise 1: 1st form
Definiton of God through the quote 'that than which nothing greater can be concieved'.
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Premise 2: 1st form
If God exists in the mind alone 'in re', then the greatest being possible would exist in both the mind and reality.
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Premise 3: 1st form
Thus this being would be greater than God as it is better to exist within reality than as a concept in our headsd.
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Premise 4: 1st form
Thus God cannot exist simply in the mind as an idea.
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Conclusion: 1st form
God desists in both the mind as an idea and in reality.
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Premise 1: 2nd form
God is the greatest thing 'than which nothing greater can be concieved'.
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Premise 2: 2nd form
greater to be a necessary being than a contingent being.
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Premise 3: 2nd form
If God exists only as a contingent being, God can therefore be imagined not to exist, then a greater being could be imagined that cannot be concieved to exist.
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Premise 4: 2nd form
By contradiction: this being would then be greater than God.
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Preimise 5: 2nd form
God would therefore be a necessary being.
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Conclusion: 2nd form
Therefirem God must exist in reality.
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Mutually Inconsistent
No being could be omniscient and omnipotent.
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Cognito, Ergo Sum
Descartes' idea of i think therefore i am.
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The Fool
The atheist in Pssalm 53- the fool who believes that it is impossible for God to exist as they have failed to understand the true concept of God.
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Ontologicall
Meaning 'concerned with being'.
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Reductio Ad Absurdum
Process of proving the need for God's existnecec to ensure it is true. Aims to show the truth by redicing the opposite of what you're aiming to prove as an absurdity.
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Necessary Being
Doesnt depend on other factors for it's existence.
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Potentiality.
The ability to change.
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Predicate (Anselm)
A characteristic is included in it's definiton/
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Predicate (Kant)
A property which something either possesses or lacks.
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Synthetic Proposition
A Statement which needs more than just deduction for it to be true (evidence/experience).
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A Sceptic
Someone who needs empirical absolute evidence for them to fully accpet a concept.
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Modal Logic
The logic of possibility and necessity/
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Possible world analysis
Using a hypothetical situation to test if an idea is logical.
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A Priori
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Proceeding from a known or assumed cause to a necessarily related effect; deductive.
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