FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:25 am
Did Kant actually say that "All arguments for the existence of God are reducible to the Ontological Argument" or did he only say that those based on a specific principle that God is the most realest thing there is (ens realissimum) reduce thus?
I am fairly sure that if you ask IC or one of the other God Botherers they should be able to come up with some arguments on behalf of God's existence against which the rejoinder that existence is not that sort of predicate would not be quite so relevant.
As I have informed Kant's approach is based on 'completeness' and 'systematicity'.
Kant categories of 'ontological' 'Cosmological' and physico-theological cover all-there-is.
1. The physico-teological cover all particulars, individuals, & human related variables
2. The Cosmological cover the whole Universes [Cosmos] that can experienced via the empirically possible.
3. The ontological cover all "existence" that can be thought of.
The above cover the full range of whatever approach the existence of God is claimed from.
Thus all claims of God exists are covered within 1, 2 and 3 wherein the ontological is explicit or implicitly embedded in 1 & 2.
That Notes thing you do, is a bit of autistic ritual isn't it?
The "Notes: KIV" is thoughtfully done with intelligence, pragmatism, efficiency and wisdom.
It is obvious almost all threads raised with the specific philosophical category here goes off topic and are turned into a dumpster full of shits.
As I had stated, all the threads I have raised are sort of "references" for my projects.
If I have a relevant and critical point to add to my OP later and to avoid lengthening the OP, then I can add the points to one of the "Notes: KIV".
If say, a thread of mine had gone into 20 pages full of shit and still going on, to post the relevant point among the shit is not easy and efficient to trace the point again.
But if I post it in my reserved "Notes: KIV" then it is easy for me to trace them in the first few posts.
I will using the Notes: KIV as the thread proceeds.
I have already done that!
Where Kant claimed in CPR - all god argument end up with the ontological.
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