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• Title:
  Is the ontological proof for God’s existence an ontological proof for God’s existence?
• Creator:
  Tkaczyk, Marcin
• Description:
  Two questions concerning Anselm of Canterbury’s theistic argument provided in Proslogion Ch. 2 are asked and answered: is the argument valid? under what conditions could it be sound? In order to answer the questions the argument is formalized as a first-order theory called AP2. The argument turns out to be valid, although it contains a hidden premise. The argument is also claimed not to be ontological one, but rather an a posteriori argument. One of the premises is found to be false, so the argument is claimed not to be sound and to fail to prove its conclusion.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2017 Logic and Logical Philosophy
• Date:
  2008.02.26
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Logic and Logical Philosophy; Vol. 16 No. 4 (2007); 289-309;
  Logic and Logical Philosophy; Tom 16 Nr 4 (2007); 289-309;
  2300-9802;
  1425-3305
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/LLP/article/view/LLP.2007.009/1475
• Subject:
  Ratio Anselmi;
  ontological argument;
  theistic argument
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/LLP/article/view/LLP.2007.009
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
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• Type:
  text