(December 12, 2015 at 1:37 pm)athrock Wrote: I have never seen this argument before, so I'm interested in some discussion of it. A philosopher by the name of Alvin Plantinga states it this way:
The Ontological Argument
- It is possible that a maximally great being exists.
- If it is possible that a maximally great being exists, then a maximally great being exists is some possible world.
- If a maximally great being exists in some possible world, then it exists in every possible world.
- If a maximally great being exists in every possible world, then it exists in the actual world.
- If a maximally great being exists in the actual world, then a maximally great being exists.
- Therefore, a maximally great being exists.
Thoughts?
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Has anyone posted this yet?
Anyway, my thought is this: how does anyone intend to demonstrate the first premise of the argument in any concrete way, knowing in advance that the moment any putative "maximally great being," is presented it can be exceeded simply by positing an identical being and including the trait "is great to a higher degree than that other being"?
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