I'll be eagerly waiting for when you find what is off then. — Amalac
, I am saying: «If God exists, then God might have this and that attribute». — Amalac
Someday when after a hard day's work you have a earned for yourself a great appetite, you must visit and I'll serve you a wonderful logical and non-contradictory dinner! But i wonder if you might not arise from table hungrier than when you sat. Logic is the use of tools on things, itself neither the tools nor the things. With logic you can all day long prove the existence of God, but that existence no more substantial than the logical dinner I serve.and therefore there is no logical contradiction — Amalac
Real in some other sense than merely as an idea. As having in any sense existence, however defined, independent from and not dependent on the mind that has the idea. In crude terms, the quality that a real brick has that, for example, makes possible the construction of a house, which the idea of a brick entirely lacks.What do you mean by substantial? — Amalac
Only if you hold the dogmatic view that yours is the «true» definition of omnipotence, does «but the word can no longer be used to characterise God» follow. — Amalac
The magnitude of positive reality, taken precisely, beyond the limits or boundaries in the things that have them. — Amalac
But if that still bothers you, let's use this definition instead: a simple quality which is absolute, and expresses without any limits whatever it does express. — Amalac
I don't see how that's «nonsensical»Leibniz' definition of perfection is: «The magnitude of positive reality, taken precisely, beyond the limits or boundaries in the things that have them. And where there are no limits, that is, in God, perfection is absolutely infinite. "
No it doesn't. The argument does not rely on the «divine cogito» nor on the experience of «necessary thinking activity», nor on the idea that God gives us an idea of the infinite.I think the following article, although lengthy, constitutes a direct response to your OP.
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