RE: The modal ontological argument - without modal logic proves atheism
February 14, 2014 at 6:15 am
There's an easier way to debunk it.
'P1: the concept of God has no contradictions in itself.'
Sez who? One must define the concept of God first in order to confidently state that it is non-contradictory. I'm unaware of ANY traditional concepts of God which are non-contradictory.
If P1 can be show to be false, the rest of the argument vanishes (to quote Douglas Adams) in a puff of logic.
Boru
'P1: the concept of God has no contradictions in itself.'
Sez who? One must define the concept of God first in order to confidently state that it is non-contradictory. I'm unaware of ANY traditional concepts of God which are non-contradictory.
If P1 can be show to be false, the rest of the argument vanishes (to quote Douglas Adams) in a puff of logic.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
