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The first, and best-known, ontological argument was proposed by St. Anselm of Canterbury in the 11th. century A.D. In his Proslogion, St. Anselm claims to derive the existence of God from the concept of a being than which no greater can be conceived.
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plato.stanford.edu/entries/ontological-arguments/
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Descartes often compares the ontological argument to a geometric demonstration, arguing that necessary existence cannot be excluded from idea of God anymore than the fact that its angles equal two right angles, for example, can be excluded from the idea of a triangle.
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plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-ontological/
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Ontological argument - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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ontological argument for the existence of God attempts the method of a priori proof, which uses intuition and reason alone. In the context of the Abrahamic religions, ontological arguments were fi...
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A selection of primary authors on the Ontological Argument for the existence of God, with an annotated bibliography of the recent studies ... History of the Ontological Argument for the Existence of God. General Introduction...
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www.formalontology.it/ontological-proof.htm
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In the 11th century, Saint Anselm, the Archbishop of Canterbury, proposed the first and best-known ontological argument for the existence of God. An ontological argument is an argument that attempts to prove the existence of God by thinking alone.
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"But now, if from the simple fact that I can draw from my thought the idea of anything it follows that all that I recognise clearly and distinctly to pertain to this thing pertains to it in reality, can I not draw from this an argument and a demonstration of the existence of God? ... "The ontological proof, which is the...
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One of the most fascinating arguments for the existence of an all-perfect God is the ontological argument. While there are several different versions of the argument, all purport to show that it is self-contradictory to deny that there exists a greatest possible being.
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www.utm.edu/research/iep/o/ont-arg.htm
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Reflections on Gödel’s Ontological Argument; Christopher G. Small†; University of Waterloo; † Mailing address: Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2G 3G1, Canada.
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; Terms; Symbols and Syntax; Semantics; The Calculus; The Propositions; Rules of Inference; The Argument; Commentary; Bibliography; ... The modal ontological argument for the existence of God is just a substitution instance for this theorem. There are only two propositions needed.
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