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Key Terms: The Ontological Argument
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- 1ProofA demonstration that something must be true.
- 2ProbabilityThe likelihood of something being true (or false).
- 3A prioriIndependent of sense experience.
- 4A posterioriDependent on sense experience.
- 5Inductive or empirical reasoningReasoning that arises from sense experience, and leads to a posteriori conclusions
- 6Deductive or rational reasoningReasoning that arises independently of sense experience (mostly, mathematical and logical knowledge), and leads to a priori conclusions.
- 7A fallacyA logical error.
- 8Anselm (1033-1109)The founder of the Ontological argument.
- 9ProslogionAnselm’s book.
- 10Necessary existenceSomething with this cannot not exist.
- 11GauniloA French monk and contemporary critic of Anselm.
- 12Rene Descartes (1596-1650)Formulated an updated version of the Ontological argument.
- 13Innate ideasThe ideas that are present in a human being’s mind at birth.
- 14Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)A critic of the Ontological argument. Said existence isn’t a property.
- 15Gottlob Frege (1848-1925)A critic of the Ontological argument.
- 16A predicateA compound made up of ‘is’ and some property a thing possesses. Eg, ‘Hannah is tall’.
- 17First order predicatesFirst order predicates tell us about things, eg, ‘TWGGS was founded in 1905’.
- 18Second order predicatesSecond-order predicates tell us about concepts, eg, ‘TWGGS is an abbreviation’.
- 19Norman Malcolm (1911-1990)Devised a version of the Ontological argument based on the idea that although bare existence is not a predicate, necessary existence is a predicate.
- 20Alvin Plantinga (1932- ).Devised a defence of the Ontological argument built around the notion of ‘possible worlds’.
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