(December 21, 2015 at 1:52 pm)Delicate Wrote: It would be nice if, instead of 100 people making 200 feeble objections to the ontological argument, there could be one, singular, comprehensive refutation that would convince people the ontological argument was fallacious.
Can someone come up with something like that? That would help.
It's an argument that doesn't demonstrate any of its premises, nor even that they're possible. It requires no refutation at all; empty assertions never do.
However, I've already given a refutation: a "maximally great being," is logically impossible, given that greatness has no upper bound and any purported maximally great being can be overshadowed simply by positing an identical being that has all the properties of the first, only more of them. The moment you define a maximally great being- which you'd need to do- it becomes possible to posit a greater one.
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