(August 30, 2016 at 12:39 am)wiploc Wrote:(August 29, 2016 at 4:51 pm)Whateverist Wrote: Can anyone show what exactly such a being would be necessary for?
We're talking about something that cannot logically not exist. Or, in possible-world-speak, it exists in every possible world. That's all we're talking about. Said a third way, we are refuting the modal ontological argument.
That's all that's being discussed here. Angles are "necessary" to triangles in the sense that an angle-less triangle would be contradictory. We aren't talking about something necessary in the sense of being needed. We're talking only about something that cannot logically fail to exist.
Who among us is in any position to know not just what is in the world but also what must be in the world. The conceit of pretending to know such a thing is breath taking. I haven't finished figuring what's up with this world. Don't think I'll be deducing anything so esoteric as possible worlds or what is necessary to any of them anytime soon.
