(September 26, 2019 at 5:29 pm)Grandizer Wrote:(September 26, 2019 at 2:28 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Successful at what? Certainly not proving the existence of a god.
Not to mention, that many philosophers do not even accept S5 modal logic.
Premise 1: It is possible that God exists.
How does one come to the conclusion, that it is even possible that a god exists? It may in fact, not be possible.
Hence why it's a useless argument. At best it's valid, nothing more.
I don't even think it's valid, though.
It seems to treat existence as if it's an attribute. As in:
This maximally great being has all the following attributes: A, B, C, D, etc.
But this maximally great being has all those same attributes, except it has one more attribute, it exists.
Doesn't something need to exist, before it can have any attributes?
Just saying...
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
