RE: The Ontological Argument - valid or debunked?
June 22, 2016 at 8:41 pm
(This post was last modified: June 22, 2016 at 8:46 pm by GrandizerII.)
(June 22, 2016 at 3:40 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: @ Irrational
I am not interested in your fallacy of the argument from authority "Hey, we're just lay people, if you don't agree with me yet ask someone academic."
Yes, an actual world is different to a possible world. I know this. You're misrepresenting me.
The point is something cannot exist in a possible world because existence is about actuality. Possible existence in a possible world is not the same thing as actual existence in a possible world. It's equivocating to say that because the existence of something is possible in a possible world then that means it actually exists in a possible world.
yes, you are right, now that I reread your post, I did misrepresent you a bit, so apologies for that.
It's just that in one system of logic, which you are certainly free to reject but it means you have to consistently reject it, possible existence is existence in a possible world (it's actual in the sense that it's true in that kind of world).
