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The Ontological Argument - valid or debunked?

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The Ontological Argument - valid or debunked?
Edwardo Piet Away
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RE: The Ontological Argument - valid or debunked?
June 23, 2016 at 5:40 pm
ChadWooters Wrote:if you list all the properties of a thing then saying a thing exists adds nothing to the description that wasn’t already there.

That's because existence and essence are separate. This is exactly my point: Existence is NOT a property. "What is X?" and "Whatever "X" that we conceive of supposedly is, does it actually exist?" are two separate questions.
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RE: The Ontological Argument - valid or debunked? - by Edwardo Piet - June 23, 2016 at 5:40 pm

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