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The Ontological Argument for the Existence of God
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RE: The Ontological Argument for the Existence of God
(December 15, 2015 at 10:19 am)ChadWooters Wrote: It's so easy to forget that the term 'maximally great' means something specific within the context of the argument, as in, the most fully expressed actuality. Outside Scholasticism the term has no meaning.

I think "the most fully expresed actuallity" is a term in need of definition.  And yes to be an actuallity of any kind a thing must exist, but the argument falls apart with the notion that if we can imagine something that must exist to meet it's definition, it must therefore exist. We conceive of things that do not and even cannot exist all the time.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god.  If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
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RE: The Ontological Argument for the Existence of God - by Jenny A - December 15, 2015 at 11:31 am
RE: The Ontological Argument for the Existence of God - by Cato - December 17, 2015 at 10:10 pm
RE: The Ontological Argument for the Existence of God - by Cato - December 17, 2015 at 11:33 pm
RE: The Ontological Argument for the Existence of God - by Cato - December 19, 2015 at 12:59 pm
RE: The Ontological Argument for the Existence of God - by Cato - December 24, 2015 at 10:26 am

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