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#20 Joe Schmid - Arguments For God Tier List

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The Modal Ontological Argument and the Symmetry Breaker

We construct a parody of the modal ontological argument. We say it's possible that god does not exist but what that means is there's a possible world in which god doesn't exist and so if we find a possibly world in which he doesn't exist we know that he exists in no possible world including the actual world therefore God doesn't exist. The arguments seem equally plausible at least on first reading according to our analysis. But they are actually not the same uh here's one way of doing it we could say that if god is a necessarily existing being if this is if this is what god is being defined as you know because flanting it doesn't quite use the the terms of god

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