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Ontological Arguments (Anselm (Deductive (Analytic, A priori, Reduction ad…

- - - - Anselm
        
        Premise 3
        
        Existence can’t be perfect
        
        Doesn’t add to concept
        
        Synthetic judgement
      - Descartes
        
        Premise 4
- - - - God cannot not exist
      - Nature can’t be necessarily false
        
        Logic of contradiction
    - - Not possible
        
        Nothing can take God
  - - - Logical necessity
    - - Analytic
    - - Ontological necessity
- - - - Imagine greatest island
      - Reality & understanding
      - Greatest island exists
      - Response
        
        Only for God
        
        Not existing?
        
        Island isn’t great
        
        God is great
        
        Intrinsic existence
  - - - Objection to a priori
    - - Matters of fact
      - Experience
    - - Nothing distinctly conceivable = contradiction
      - Existence and non existence
      - No being where non existence = contradiction
    - - Reject Hume’s Fork
        
        Synthetic argument
        
        A priori reflection
      - Rejects P2
      - Rational intuition
      - God is an exception
        
        Divine perfections
        
        Entail one another