Do your beliefs imply a Necessary being exists?
August 16, 2012 at 6:53 pm
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(August 14, 2012 at 5:55 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Well it doesn't imply a necessary being exists either if you don't take the premise a necessary being is possible. But given people's beliefs, then they should by this logic believe in multiple necessary beings.Well, there's more than one way to cut into that ambiguity...
If a Creator is logically possible, then different types of a Creator seem to be logically possible or at least seem that way. So if a person accepts a Christian God is possible as a necessary being, then he can accept the Hindu Brahman as a possible necessary being.
And due to this, it would mean all such Creators have to exist per this person's belief....
E.G. Maybe God XOR Odin XOR Princess Celestia XOR... (long list of alternatives)... caused all contingent things to exist and must necessarily exist. (One of these guys necessarily exists, but we don't necessarily know who)
If we have multiple scenarios for the creation of the world (God made the known universe XOR Odin made the known universe...) then the creator-in-question may only exist contingently, (which creation scenario did we come from? iono...) in which case we have to look for another dude to be the cause of all contingent things...
Alternatively, the "possibly necessary -> necessary" proof doesn't seem to follow if you omit the 'necessity of possibility' axiom of modal logic (which the Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy seems to present as desirable but not necessary
) so there might be something for you over there too.
