(May 10, 2014 at 10:38 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote:(May 10, 2014 at 9:58 pm)Chas Wrote: Except that it is not valid.
"Premise 3: If the MGB exists in some possible world, then the MGB exists in all possible worlds"
This is an invalid flip from 'there exists' to 'for all'. Logic fail.
And if you looked into Maydole's argument, you'd know that a Maximally Great Being possesses the property of necessary existence. And things that are necessarily the case are such in all possible worlds. You in fact accept this yourself. That is, unless you're going to say that there are possible worlds where 2+2 =/=4?
It's not a logic fail, as it is a deductively valid argument in axiom S5 of modal logic.
I don't accept possible worlds as having existence. They are hypothetical.
So the argument from 'necessary existence' is completely ludicrous.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.