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  • Ontological Argument Proving God's Existence
    God is not the greatest conceivable being- many philosophers have argued this, many will do so in the future.
  • The Existence of God
    @mitchell
    For what reason? By its very definition, existence must have a beginning and an end
  • The Existence of God
    @bahman
    I would argue that infinity works on the same principles as an infinite regress. Just as something must have caused the last cause, something greater than the greatest conceivable thing can always be conceived.
    Rather than God being the greatest conceivable being, it makes more sense to think of God as the only unconceivable being.
  • The Existence of God
    @Noble _Dust

    My idea was that if we can say that the ability to be imagined is a predicate of all things, the only way to end an infinite regress would be to have an unimaginable thing which still exists, which fits into many people's idea of God. By the same logic, if one were to use inherent creativity, God would have to lack any creativity in himself, which would make it impossible to have created the Universe. In order to create something with purpose- as we can see is the case of all things in the Universe- one must first imagine its purpose. It would make sense therefore to say that God could imagine the purpose of all things, yet himself remain unimaginable- then God could create the Universe, but create nothing as sophisticated as himself, explaining why our Universe is limited by the laws of nature, limited by God's imagination.
  • Time is real and allows change
    "I don't think that's the case. You watch things change, and you deduce that time has passed. In that case time isn't strictly empirical, it's theoretical, "if things change then time has passed"."
    - Metaphysician Undercover

    So time is an expression of change, an error of language perhaps but not ignorance. It is evident that change occurs in the world and this we call time. We should define 'time' similarly to our definition of 'observation of change', rather than saying that two halves of the same walnut came from different trees. Time is not a separate thing we have deduced from empiricism, it is the description we have attached to our observation.
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