(March 4, 2017 at 4:43 am)TheAtheologian Wrote: This being would be independent of what we know, so it wouldn't matter what we all know is possible, just that this being is the greatest being possible.
"Greatest" would be a manifestation of every logical possibility.
Surely the "greatest possible being" is one that could do the impossible, no? If it can create the laws of logic, why can't it violate them?
I think the greatest possible being is one that could create the universe without ever having existed in the first place, but that's just what you get when you toss around subjective terms like they have objective meaning.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
