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Date Posted:03/13/04 2:29pm In reply to:
Damoclese
's message, "Logical Proof of No God?" on 03/12/04 4:04pm
>1. God is the greatest possible being.
>2. There can be no being greater than God.
>3. An imaginary being is less great than one that is
>both imagined and real.
>4. Being the greatest possible being necessitates that
>it at least be both imaginable, and real.
>5. Nothing is a state of not being.
>6. Nothing is both imaginable and real.
>7. God must be the greater nothing.
>8. Being the greater nothing means at least an
>imaginable and real state of not being.
>9. Therefore, being the greatest nothing, there is no
>God.
>Else: "Nothing" has greater existence than God.
It sounds like a variation of the ontological argument, but we have a problem. Lines 7 and 9 don't seem to logically follow from any of the previous premises (it would help if you listed which premises you believed the conclusion derives from). The argument is evidently invalid.
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