ontological argument
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ontological
adjective
uk/ɒn.təˈlɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/us/ɑːn.toʊˈlɑː.dʒɪ.kəl/
relating ...
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argument
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈɑːɡ.jə.mənt/us/ˈɑːrɡ.jə.mənt/
a disagreement, or the process ...
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(Definition ofontologicalandargumentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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And, so, it is by virtue of this conceptual connection that the failure of theontologicalargumentis supposed to compromise the cosmological argument.
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One feature often attacked in the chapter 2 formulation of theontologicalargumentis the unstated premise that existence is a great-making property.
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If theontologicalargumentwere a success, then the existence of the ens realissimum could only be denied on pain of contradiction.
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But there remains another serious problem with theontologicalargumentin this formulation.
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So, given the failure of theontologicalargument, the existence of the ens realissimum cannot stem from its own nature.
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Appeal to the cosmological argument would be redundant if theontologicalargumentcould be appealed to instead.
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Perhaps theontologicalargumentis of some use to polytheists after all.
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The difficulty here is that it seems that theontologicalargumentdepends on the notion that maximal possible greatness must be maximal actual greatness.
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In what follows, the focus will be on a species ofontologicalargumentsupplemented with pragmatic perspectives.
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I show that if theontologicalargumentis sound, it proves that a number of maximally great beings must exist.
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It contains a useful discussion of linear versus hierarchical causes, which is often not treated in standard textbooks, but it is less successful than the chapter on theontologicalargument.
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Such a being is a self-explaining being in that there is a successfulontologicalargumentfor its existence, even if we aren't up to giving it.
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However, the failure of theontologicalargument, instead of undermining the cosmological argument, rather liberates it from the dependency it would have if the ontological argument were a success.
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This brings him closer to discussions typical of theontologicalargument(in its modal forms at least) than to the cosmological argument and the argument from design.
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In other words, only if theontologicalargumentholds can the concept of the ens realissimum fulfil its function with respect to the concept of a necessary being.
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The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the extent to which this discussion informs his claim that the cosmological argument depends upon theontologicalargument.
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Kant claims that the conceptual adequacy of the ens realissimum in our thinking of a necessary being depends upon the success of theontologicalargument.
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I am not sure from my philosophy days whether this is—no; it is not theontologicalargument; it is the gramophone playing in the desert.
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Theontologicalargumentreflected the classical concept of perfections.
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He contrasted theontologicalargument(literally any argument concerned with being) with the cosmological and physio-theoretical arguments.
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