1 It may be set forth as follows: 1. The ens realissimum (i.e., God) is, by definition, the being who possesses all perfections. . Since (a) existence is a perfection, (b) any being that possesses all perfections must exist. 3. Therefore, the ens realissimum exists. Kant is generally credited with originating what has become the standard criticism of the ontological argument--that existence is not a predicate...
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His critique contains in addition two other objections that he and his commentators do not always keep separate from the first: in a predicative proposition you may always "reject the subject," and there is something logically defective in the concept of a necessary being. I argue that one of these criticisms is cogent while the other two--including the famous one--are not...
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