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Computer Scientists "prove" God exists
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RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists
October 27, 2013 at 11:30 am (This post was last modified: October 27, 2013 at 11:38 am by MindForgedManacle.)
I study both computer science and philosophy in school. I find this dubious. Admittedly, I'm not familiar with Gödel's work outside his incompleteness theorems. But if the article accurately summarizes Gödel's attempt at an ontological proof of God's existence, then he would seem to have made the same fatal conceptual error that St. Anselm made: Treating existence as a precicate, a property. Philosophers widely consider this a problem, since there doesn't seem to be any actual difference between imagining something, and imagining that something as existing.

Edit: The article just seems to indicate the theorem is valid, right? Soundness unknown?
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Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Silver - October 27, 2013 at 8:39 am
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Chas - October 27, 2013 at 8:45 am
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Brian37 - October 29, 2013 at 12:46 pm
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Dragonetti - October 27, 2013 at 9:20 am
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Esquilax - October 27, 2013 at 10:12 am
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by MindForgedManacle - October 27, 2013 at 11:30 am
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Tkcjpii - October 27, 2013 at 7:53 pm
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Godschild - October 28, 2013 at 1:26 am
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Esquilax - October 28, 2013 at 1:28 am
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Cinjin - October 28, 2013 at 2:02 am
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Godschild - October 28, 2013 at 1:17 pm
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Esquilax - October 28, 2013 at 2:06 pm
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Godschild - October 29, 2013 at 3:47 pm
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Brian37 - October 29, 2013 at 5:21 pm
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Esquilax - October 30, 2013 at 7:32 am
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Godschild - October 30, 2013 at 5:15 pm
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Esquilax - October 30, 2013 at 5:17 pm
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Godschild - October 30, 2013 at 8:24 pm
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Godschild - October 31, 2013 at 1:13 am
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Silver - October 30, 2013 at 5:37 am
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Owlix - October 27, 2013 at 8:36 pm
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Cinjin - October 27, 2013 at 8:48 pm
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by DLJ - October 28, 2013 at 7:01 am
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by max-greece - October 28, 2013 at 7:06 am
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Godschild - October 28, 2013 at 9:02 pm
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Silver - October 28, 2013 at 10:26 pm
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Godschild - October 28, 2013 at 10:48 pm
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Silver - October 28, 2013 at 10:49 pm
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Godschild - October 29, 2013 at 12:41 am
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Godschild - October 29, 2013 at 7:37 pm
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Zen Badger - October 29, 2013 at 9:29 am
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Walking Void - October 28, 2013 at 12:24 pm
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by orogenicman - October 28, 2013 at 11:56 pm
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by orogenicman - October 29, 2013 at 2:56 am
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by orogenicman - October 29, 2013 at 5:11 pm
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by orogenicman - October 29, 2013 at 9:35 pm
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by LastPoet - October 30, 2013 at 6:35 am
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by LastPoet - October 29, 2013 at 7:30 am
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by orogenicman - October 29, 2013 at 8:13 am
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Dragonetti - October 29, 2013 at 7:37 am
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Godschild - October 29, 2013 at 2:05 pm
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Brian37 - October 29, 2013 at 3:09 pm
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Zen Badger - October 30, 2013 at 5:54 am
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by orogenicman - October 30, 2013 at 9:48 am
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by LastPoet - October 30, 2013 at 1:30 pm
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by LostLocke - October 30, 2013 at 12:46 pm
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by orogenicman - October 30, 2013 at 8:43 pm
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Godschild - November 4, 2013 at 11:42 am
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by orogenicman - November 5, 2013 at 12:46 am
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Godschild - November 5, 2013 at 1:45 am
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by orogenicman - November 5, 2013 at 3:01 am
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Godschild - November 5, 2013 at 2:01 pm
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by orogenicman - November 5, 2013 at 4:03 pm
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Anomalocaris - November 5, 2013 at 4:19 pm
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Godschild - November 5, 2013 at 4:37 pm
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by orogenicman - November 5, 2013 at 6:37 pm
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Anomalocaris - November 5, 2013 at 2:11 pm
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Zen Badger - October 31, 2013 at 7:36 am
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Godschild - November 1, 2013 at 3:24 am
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Zen Badger - November 3, 2013 at 2:57 am
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Sejanus - November 1, 2013 at 4:20 am
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by orogenicman - November 3, 2013 at 10:13 am
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Owlix - November 5, 2013 at 8:52 pm
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Godschild - November 6, 2013 at 12:57 am
RE: Computer Scientists "prove" God exists - by Anomalocaris - November 6, 2013 at 1:13 am

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