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198: The Proslogion

Classical Stuff You Should Know

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You Can't Conceive of a God Existing

If you claim to be thinking of that thing greater than which nothing can be conceived, then he must. The thing you are thinking of must actually existnow. It doest. It literally doesn't. So the thing about the ontological argument is it's a lot easy to dismiss it and say you don't like it than it is to find the actual problem with it. But if you don't believe in god, then you wouldn't say that god exists necessarily. You would say that a a conception of god, who is not real Is inferior to fighter jets or whatever,. but he is also inferior to a god that exists.

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