(August 4, 2017 at 3:44 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: I don't know about the others but I'm still waiting to see all those defeaters I keep hearing about. I don't think I've ever seen a serious objection to most Necessary Being demonstrations (here and supplemented here) or the Argument from Logic (here.)
Well, as someone who doesn't see the universe as particularly necessary (other than that I'd have no place to keep my stuff in the absence of same), the Necessary Being argument is a non-starter for me.
Argument from Logic seems to start out with some interesting premises, but I had a "Wait, what?" moment at point #8, "The Laws of Logic are Divine Thoughts." At that point the argument seems to have stuck its tail in its mouth like an ouroboros. It's also merely (yes, I said "merely") a philosophical argument, suggesting that there might be a divine thinker, but does not actually demonstrate that there is a divine thinker.