The Ontological Argument
In Our Time: Philosophy
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Is Existence a Predicate?
Kant gives a slightly different expression to hume's basic thought that peter's just outlined. But kant expresses it in a very clear way, which many people have taken to be,. e pretty definitive em rejection of argument, or defeats the argument. Existence is not a property or a predicate at all. So predicates tell ust what something is like. If you put a group of predicates together, then you get a concept of something. Em, but existence isn't. Doesn't tell us more about about claire. This is, this is er kan can's claim, am that to say that something exists is not to tell us about what that thing is.
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