RE: The modal ontological argument for God
August 6, 2024 at 5:31 pm
(This post was last modified: August 6, 2024 at 5:42 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Well..traditionally, christians don't think it's just possible that god is a necessary being - it's considered tautologically true that god is a necessary being. What the moa asks is not whether god is a necessary being, but whether a rational person could accept that a necessary being might exist in a possible world. Whether a rational person could accept that a most-of-the-whatevers existed in a possible world (as we've seen, the omnis don't exactly mean all...just, you know, more than anything else - apparently). Whether a person thinks it is possible for there to be a possible world that contains a possible being that possibly cannot fail to exist.
The logic employed trims qualifiers..so possibly necessary is necessary, possibly necessarily existent is necessarily existent. It really isn't any more complicated than that.
The logic employed trims qualifiers..so possibly necessary is necessary, possibly necessarily existent is necessarily existent. It really isn't any more complicated than that.
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