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The Ontological Argument - valid or debunked?
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RE: The Ontological Argument - valid or debunked?
My contribution:

Ontological Argument Wrote:Premise 1: It's possible that a 'maximally great being' exists.
Logically possible, yes.
Quote:Premise 2: If it's possible that a maximally great being exists, then a maximally great being exists in some possible world.

Premise 3: If a maximally great being exists in some possible world, then it exists in every possible world.

These are non-sequiturs.

Quote:Premise 4: If a maximally great being exists in every possible world, then it exists in the actual world.

Yes.

Quote:Premise 5: Therefore a maximally great being exists in the actual world.

No because "if God exists in all worlds then he exists in our world" proves nothing.


Quote:Premise 6: Therefore a maximally great being exists
Conclusion: Therefore God exists.

This is redundant.
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RE: The Ontological Argument - valid or debunked? - by Edwardo Piet - June 21, 2016 at 3:43 am

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