How is the question ‘Is Existence a Predicate?’ relevant to the ontological argument?
It is often said that the ontological argument fails because it wrongly treats existence as a first-level property or predicate. This has proved a controversial claim, and efforts to evaluate it are complicated by the fact that the words ‘existence is not a property/predicate’ have been used by phil...
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2008
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International journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2008, Volume: 64, Issue: 3, Pages: 117-133 |
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Ontological Argument
B Gassendi B Caterus objection B Predicates B God B Existence B Kant |
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