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198: The Proslogion

Classical Stuff You Should Know

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The Ontological Argument Is Not Self Containing in Existence

The ontological argument is dodging the infinite series question, right? Yes. So could it just be an infinite series of causes all the way backys,. conceivably, we could have infinite universes that never really began. But god himself is uncaused, right? And so we have to rely on something that we've said to start start the whole chain. Y, i don'tknow yet. I love that he actually moved forward to establish all the attributes of god from that one argument. Nt, i never realized he did that before, but it's kind of cool in which he establishes that.

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