«Someday when after a hard day's work you have a earned for yourself a great appetite, you must visit and I'll serve you a wonderful logical and non-c...
«it seems to me you make a fatal mistake in not distinguishing between a thing and the idea of a thing. Indeed I would agree that we can have an idea ...
And I already gave you my response, to which you have yet to respond: Leibniz already responded implicitly to that view: «It follows also that creatur...
Like I said, argument A is only valid if we accept premise 2. Why should we accept it? If the propositions «God exists» and «God is conceivable» are n...
Or perhaps I misunderstood you, and you are taking a view similar to Kant's, i.e. that it is an antinomy. Now what concerns me about that is that what...
«2. If God is the greatest being then nothing can be God's equal in any respect, anywhere and at any time » Why should I accept this premise? See my p...
«First, we have to understand what is abstract concepts as "perfection" "limits" and "God" What if you never heard of these? Well welcome to extreme e...
«Ergo, god is neither conceivable nor inconceivable, god can't be anything at all if god is the "...greatest being..." Is god nothing then? I'll leave...
«If god exists as an idea then god is conceivable. An ant, ping pong ball, a dog, etc are all conceivable. Ergo, being conceivable doesn't seem the ri...
«Maybe ultimate goodness is a place and feeling we experience when we die, not some God out there watching us» So you are arguing that non-existence m...
Yes, that is a good formalization of the argument. You should only add a premise that 2 is true because that is what is implied by non-existence being...
1.Let's hear those assumptions then. 2. Again, I don't see what «ultimate goodness» has to to do with the argument. I don't mention goodness even once...
Plus, perfection doesn't just involve «good». Goodness is only one among other perfections, such as existence. The argument depends on «existence» as ...
1. «All that we know of good is beauty in the world, the goodness of children, and virtue in adults. Trying to conceptualize a being having all those ...
1.«Yes, but those philosophers are confused and did not have the benefit of being exposed to my argument. I have been exposed to theirs, but not they ...
« I have no idea what that means. "Positive" - what does that mean? Does it mean exists, perhaps? I just don't know what that definition means.» «Leib...
1. «A being who is constrained by the laws of logic is less powerful than one who is not. Thus an all powerful being is not constrained by the laws of...
1. «The subject of all perfections» is the definition of God I take from Leibniz. 2. No, I am not using the words «perfection» and «exists» as synonim...
When you say the subject of all perfections does not exist, then if you admit that existence and non-existence are predicates, then that subject must ...
1. “First, why would it be impossible to conceive of God's non existence? ” «Let us assume that the subject of all perfections does not exist: then no...
1. “Why do you think a subject of perfection is conceivable?” A subject of all perfections can be conceived means: We can understand the proposition: ...
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