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This part is okay, without the ending. No, it's not false starting from the assumption of the ontological argument. You keep claiming that we imagine ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lF7hpVCilg Now the lies of the media are starting to come to the surface.

How big is the biggest ever?

Also, if for nothing else, you should also read that article because the ontological argument has played an essential role in philosophy historically....

I know, but that article also addresses your concern. Call X the whole concept of God, including all possible predicates. Now subtract existence from ...

Merely repeating something does not make it true.

>:O >:O

Oh dear... Anything to be a citizen of the greatest country on Earth? :P

Hmmm, so I see that you are an American citizen then? :P

From Uncle Sam?

I will come back to this later, but you really should read that paper, it addresses your concern. http://www.andrewmbailey.com/ap/Kants_Objection.pdf

You think reputable philosophers like Alvin Plantinga would "purposefully" word an argument in a misleading way? Regardless of that, I don't think the...

You've been spewing a lot of nonsense in this thread, but this mistaken understanding is precisely the problem. You treat God as another being amongst...

God is rather defined as maximally great. The being is not imagined to exist in reality. "Imagined" is not a useful word. To exist in the understandin...

I think it's quite clear that existence in the understanding is not hypothetical - God really exists in the understanding, that is the claim of premis...

Why? That's your mistake. Ideality and actuality are different only in finite beings. But for the infinite being, God, there is no gap between idealit...

@"Sapientia", how's it going bro?

What's wrong with a boy named Sue and a girl named Horse? I once met a horse named Girl actually, so it can happen the other way too.

Yeah? What took you so long?

Then why do you have a picture of Hannah Arendt?

No, "God" in (5) refers to the God we have conceived in (1). Greater than that God.

Why not? (3) establishes only that such a being can be conceived, not that it is also greater than God. It is (4) that establishes this. Thus (5) is a...

@"TimeLine", are you Hannah Arendt?

Even if this is granted, the "would" is coupled with the if of God existing in the understanding, not with the if of God existing in reality.

Your version is a non-sequitur, since the conclusion you presented does not follow from the premises. (1) is an assumption. The conclusion is in accor...

Btw, someone sent me this blog post, and since you like Heidegger, it reminded me of you: https://eight2late.wordpress.com/2014/03/20/the-essence-of-e...

But, I will grant you this - the atheist does not have to show that the idea of God is incoherent or logically contradictory to deny the argument (as ...

Also, it's something that is exaggerated to think the argument is a sophism, when heavy-weights like even Hegel thought that it is important.

No, you haven't fixed it. You've made it into a non-sequitur. As a non-native speaker, your change of "is" into "would be" in (4) seems fair. But this...

Actually... I misread your solution initially. At least you seem to understand what the problem is. So here are my comments again: On what grounds do ...

Those are all great talents to have :) I too am a natural introvert, and I actually don't like dealing with people, at least not for extended periods ...

It's not the same thing as what you saw in the music industry. The skill comes from knowing what to create, what colors to use, etc. not from actually...

Nobody designs websites by hand (except maybe a wireframe). Photoshop has the advantage that a developer (the person who codes the website) has the de...

Why do you consider it dishonesty? :P

Yeah, that's why Photoshop draws straight lines for you, regardless of how wobbly your hands are :P

Oh, that's cool, I see. It's difficult to advise others on what business to start, cause it really depends on your skills, your personality, and your ...

Yeah, I'm talking about just the design aspect of websites. Basically, you'd be making Photoshop files with how the page(s) look, including maybe elem...

Yeah, web design and graphic design - you're an artist there.

Start a business (though that's not really working for yourself without others), or learn some valuable skill such as web design, or web development, ...

For some reason I thought you're a small business owner.

See, I am tired of "reinterpretations" of Kant such as: From here. If this interpretation is correct, Kantianism is dead anyway. Schopenhauer would ri...

This lecture is a good summary of the refutation of Kant's views: http://faculty.poly.edu/~jbain/spacetime/lectures/13.Kant_and_Geometry.pdf

@"andrewk" To further illustrate what imagination is, when I imagine a curved line, I imagine that line curving right in front of my eyes. Basically I...

Suppose the curvature is very high, such that if you take 10 steps in one direction, you return to the same point where you started. This is a thought...

I will address this later when I have more time. I don't see how you're imagining anything. To imagine is to create a visual, tactile, or in any case ...

Okay, answer when you have time then :P We perceive them via instruments, that is still perception. It's like looking at a cell with a microscope - st...

What does it mean that it is a hypothetical construct?

How do you imagine a 3D, non-flat space? How do you imagine intrinsic curvature? Hopefully, you won't say that you do via analogy to extrinsic curvatu...

What is "human perception"? Is this not the same space as the space in which our bodies act and live? Before you said visual perception - that's not c...

Ptolemization, I see X-) - when it doesn't work, we'll add new fudge factors to make it work... Kind of ironic, given that this was supposed to be a C...