RE: Plantiga's ontological argument.
April 9, 2013 at 9:08 am
(This post was last modified: April 9, 2013 at 9:13 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The reason that you've gone off the rails (in the same way that any argument like this goes off the rails) is that your idea of an "ultimate or necessary" whatever is an illogical premise. The reason that ontological arguments are generally "meh" at what they hope to achieve (take platingas as a case in point) is that they only show that if one starts with an illogical premise and forms a valid argument it is rational to accept the conclusion. That's the entirety of what an ontological argument for a god can do. Clearly, I'm not as impressed by this as you.
You won't actually be able to explain why the ultimate ultimate, the necessary of necessaries can't be a monkey or an elephant, or the color red (or non-existent). It's tied to what you already feel to be ultimate or necessary. Hanuman and Ganesh, and the Ming line that connects you to the cosmic egg all disapprove.
You won't actually be able to explain why the ultimate ultimate, the necessary of necessaries can't be a monkey or an elephant, or the color red (or non-existent). It's tied to what you already feel to be ultimate or necessary. Hanuman and Ganesh, and the Ming line that connects you to the cosmic egg all disapprove.
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