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Re: The conflict between Agnostics and Atheists in a knowledge economy
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- Subject: Re: The conflict between Agnostics and Atheists in a knowledge economy
- From: ravi <ravi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 18:37:47 -0500
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At around 9/3/07 5:33 pm, Shane Mage wrote:
>
> Actually, this is exactly the famous "ontological proof" propounded
> by Anselm: that when "the fool sayeth in his heart that there is no
> god" he is being self-contradictory because the concept *god*
> (included in the statement "there is no god") includes *existence*
> as an attribute of that conceptual object.
>
W.V.O.Quine addresses this trap quite well in "On What There is".
Unfortunately I do not have my copy on hand and I would rather quote him
than summarise. More shortly...
--ravi
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- Re: The conflict between Agnostics and Atheists in a knowledge economy, (continued)
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