darius19
R.I.P. Kobe and Nip, that’s off the rip
how so? and you graduated?
God Is Greater Than Can Be Conceived..Thoughts/Opinions
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how so? and you graduated?
Where'd you get your sig from? I tried to read Tender is the Night, but had to put that trash down after the first 10 chapters
Ontological arguments work in the context of logic as a deductive syllogism -- as in propositional logic a conclusion that HAS to be true if the premises are true.
A simple and famous example is:
A. All men are mortal.
B. Socrates is a man.
C. Socrates is mortal.
This is a valid argument (i.e., it is NOT possible for A&B to be true without C being true) and it is sound (A&B are actually true in the real world). A sound argument will always be valid, but a valid argument isn't always sound. You can make a valid argument about anything. For example:
A. Vampires are immortal.
B. My friend is a vampire.
C. My friend is immortal.
Valid argument, but not sound as vampires don't actually exist as far as we know, at least not in the mystical sense.
For ontological proofs you have to readily accept some premise(s) before you even get to the proof: God can be deduced via human rationale, or God is a being greater than all others, or God is distinguished in some definitive eay and so forth.
If I reject the idea that God can't be deduced logically from the mind, I can't even begin to approach Descartes' initial premise. And IF I do accept the aforementioned, it can never be proven to be anymore than a sound argument just like my Vampire example, because there's no definite proof of the existence of God in the world. It's just a foible of these kinda arguments. I tried not to be too esoteric.
Did I graduate? I have 2 classes left for my other major and a senior seminar in philisophy. Yeah, I'm pretty much done. Going to finish that shyt out in the fall. Might get my PhD in philosophy one day if I ever find the time after law school. :ehhhh: