{"id":1881,"date":"2016-03-23T02:49:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T02:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/reasonablyfaithless\/?p=1881"},"modified":"2016-03-23T02:49:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T02:49:58","slug":"ontological-arguments-making-dreams-come-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/reasonablyfaithless\/2016\/03\/23\/ontological-arguments-making-dreams-come-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontological arguments: making your dreams come true"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this image while preparing a lecture on Logic:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/reasonablyfaithless\/files\/2016\/03\/3wishes.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1882\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1882\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/reasonablyfaithless\/files\/2016\/03\/3wishes.jpg\" alt=\"3wishes\" width=\"600\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/reasonablyfaithless\/files\/2016\/03\/3wishes.jpg 600w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/reasonablyfaithless\/files\/2016\/03\/3wishes-300x84.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t help but think of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iep.utm.edu\/ont-arg\/\">Anselm&#8217;s\u00a0Ontological Argument<\/a>\u00a0(slightly paraphrased):<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">I am thinking of a being that is maximally great. \u00a0Such a being is so great it couldn&#8217;t <em>not<\/em> exist. \u00a0Therefore, this being\u00a0<em>does<\/em> exist!<\/p>\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/reasonablyfaithless\/2013\/01\/01\/arguing-about-ontology\/\">Arguing about ontology<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/reasonablyfaithless\/2013\/06\/07\/video-the-ontological-argument-vs-christianity\/\">The Ontological Argument meets Christianity<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/reasonablyfaithless\/2012\/08\/21\/resurrecting-victor-stengers-ontological-pizza\/\">Resurrecting Victor Stenger&#8217;s ontological pizza<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/reasonablyfaithless\/2012\/08\/26\/conclusive-proof-that-there-is-no-god\/\">Conclusive proof that there is no God<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/reasonablyfaithless\/2013\/03\/14\/atheistic-ontological-argument-version-3\/\">Atheistic Ontological Argument v3<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this image while preparing a lecture on Logic: I couldn&#8217;t help but think of Anselm&#8217;s\u00a0Ontological Argument\u00a0(slightly paraphrased):&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":1882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178,13,19],"tags":[197,198,217,32,204],"class_list":["post-1881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-humour","category-ontological-argument","tag-god","tag-humour","tag-logic","tag-maximally-great-being","tag-ontological-argument"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/reasonablyfaithless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/reasonablyfaithless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/reasonablyfaithless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/reasonablyfaithless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/reasonablyfaithless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/reasonablyfaithless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/reasonablyfaithless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/reasonablyfaithless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/reasonablyfaithless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/reasonablyfaithless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}