RE: A Necessary Being?
August 31, 2016 at 12:22 pm
(This post was last modified: August 31, 2016 at 12:29 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
In context, it's a failure of the power of defining. If one defines god -as- a necessarry being in an argument meant to demonstrate it;s existence, one has simply assumed their conclusion... meanwhile the modal hook tells us that god cannot -be- a necessary being just as easily and by the same means as it might otherwise conclude that god exists...thus defining it as such (in addition to being invalid) is to refuse the validity of modal logic...which forms the basis of the most popular modern ontological arguments -for- god in the first place.
Ignoring all of that, and running with it anyway, the manner in which god exists as per the modal hook is not the manner in which it exists -in this world- in any sense other than the sense of modal logic. Which is to say that if something exists in some other world, it exists...even if doesn't exist -in- this world. If there are phlephlarps out there in another world, but not this one, phlephlarps exist in all worlds - logically and linguistically -...despite their utter lack of presence in this world....which is the thing that people, generally, hope that we'll take from such an argument....that it exists here. That it's relevant to us. That it played in the dirt and here we are.
It's a giant steaming pile.
Ignoring all of that, and running with it anyway, the manner in which god exists as per the modal hook is not the manner in which it exists -in this world- in any sense other than the sense of modal logic. Which is to say that if something exists in some other world, it exists...even if doesn't exist -in- this world. If there are phlephlarps out there in another world, but not this one, phlephlarps exist in all worlds - logically and linguistically -...despite their utter lack of presence in this world....which is the thing that people, generally, hope that we'll take from such an argument....that it exists here. That it's relevant to us. That it played in the dirt and here we are.
It's a giant steaming pile.
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