Background Probability

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Thursday, August 7, 2008

Ontological Argument for God

This is my very favorite argument for God, because it is so wonderfully sophistic, solipsistic, and (in later formulations) linguistically slapstick:

  1. If God is defined such that God exists, then God really does exist.

  2. "God" is defined as a being which, among other things, exists (necessarily)

  3. Therefore, God exists.

Given the tenuousness of the first premise, I really don't think we ought to waste loads of time on this one.

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