
#17 April 1st - Why I'm a Christian Now, with Stephen Woodford
Within Reason
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The Ontology of Doorness
The ontological argument runs that, well, that thing must exist in reality as well as the mind. But I don't think that's a answer. Oh, he's expressing something that's completely trivial,. Like, yeah, if you conceive of God, then, okay, fine. Well, he's saying, again, let's kind of get rid of the God talk. Let's just say, the greatest conceivable being. We've got- imagine the greatest conceivable thing. Okay, you do this thing. So the objection runs like this. There's a difference between something being a greater door in regards to doorness and being a greater doors in regards to thingness. The maxim
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