For: Whatever is possible must be instantiated., Whatever is not incoherent must be true., God is either necessary or impossible. God is not impossible (he is not self-contradictory or logically absurd). Therefore God is necessary., God is a being that which nothing greater can be conceived. Things are better is reality than in thought so God must exist., Existence is a predicate., The fool who denies God exists, already understand the word God or he could not say there is no God (Psalm 14.1)., God is necessary, not contingent., God has all the attributes of perfection. Existence is an attribute of perfection., You cannot separate God and existence., Necessary existence is a perfection., A maximally great God exists in one worlds must exist in all., Against: Existence is not a predicate, Just because you can imagine it, does not mean that it must exist., Stating that something 'exists' is only saying that the concept is instantiated., Just because there is no example of a purple dragon in the world, does not mean that it is impossible., Criticism of Descartes by Kant. All that has been proved is that "If God exists, he must exist". , A non-incoherent statement could be true., God exists is a synthetic statement., It is possible to reject both the concept and its definition e.g. I can think of a triangle as not existing just as I can think of a God not existing.,

Arguments for and against The Ontological Argument

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