Russell and Onto Arg by Claire https://padlet.com/clairea/1rotdb2yyuls en-us 2016-09-27 15:26:08 UTC 2016-10-04 14:45:16 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/clairea/1rotdb2yyuls/wish/127719541 Bertrand Russell has admitted that "it is easier to feel convinced that it must be fallacious than it is to find out precisely where the fallacy lies"]]> 2016-10-02 12:25:17 UTC https://padlet.com/clairea/1rotdb2yyuls/wish/127719541 Russel generally maintained that religion is little more than superstition and it is largely harmful to people.  https://padlet.com/clairea/1rotdb2yyuls/wish/127719693 2016-10-02 12:28:38 UTC https://padlet.com/clairea/1rotdb2yyuls/wish/127719693 He drew a distinction between existence and essence, arguing that the essence of a person can be described and their existence still remain in question https://padlet.com/clairea/1rotdb2yyuls/wish/127719811 2016-10-02 12:31:17 UTC https://padlet.com/clairea/1rotdb2yyuls/wish/127719811 https://padlet.com/clairea/1rotdb2yyuls/wish/127719831  during his early Helegian phase he accepted the argument.. He one said: "Great God in Boots!—the ontological argument is sound!"
However, he later criticized the argument, asserting that "the argument does not, to a modern mind, seem very convincing.]]> 2016-10-02 12:32:00 UTC https://padlet.com/clairea/1rotdb2yyuls/wish/127719831 Russel's criticisms https://padlet.com/clairea/1rotdb2yyuls/wish/127719988 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA59Yv89m9c]]> 2016-10-02 12:35:33 UTC https://padlet.com/clairea/1rotdb2yyuls/wish/127719988 https://padlet.com/clairea/1rotdb2yyuls/wish/127737582 Russel states that labelling and defining something is to provide an intention(description) concerning the object under discussion.]]> 2016-10-02 17:19:06 UTC https://padlet.com/clairea/1rotdb2yyuls/wish/127737582 "that than which nothing greater can be achieved" is simply the totality of everything that can be conceived by the human mind related to the idea of god  https://padlet.com/clairea/1rotdb2yyuls/wish/127737847 2016-10-02 17:21:47 UTC https://padlet.com/clairea/1rotdb2yyuls/wish/127737847 Russell would support Anselm's claim that God is the greatest thing that we can think of , but not Anselm's belief that this proves Gods existence https://padlet.com/clairea/1rotdb2yyuls/wish/127738007 2016-10-02 17:23:43 UTC https://padlet.com/clairea/1rotdb2yyuls/wish/127738007 Therefore , for Russell the argument does not prove the existence of God and does not challenge disbelief in god  https://padlet.com/clairea/1rotdb2yyuls/wish/127738176 2016-10-02 17:25:34 UTC https://padlet.com/clairea/1rotdb2yyuls/wish/127738176 https://padlet.com/clairea/1rotdb2yyuls/wish/127738468 2016-10-02 17:29:14 UTC https://padlet.com/clairea/1rotdb2yyuls/wish/127738468 https://padlet.com/clairea/1rotdb2yyuls/wish/127738531 2016-10-02 17:29:51 UTC https://padlet.com/clairea/1rotdb2yyuls/wish/127738531 Betrand Russell came up with his own argument to support existence not being a predicate : https://padlet.com/clairea/1rotdb2yyuls/wish/127739098 P1:  Men exist
P2 : Santa is a man
CONC: Santa exists]]> 2016-10-02 17:36:26 UTC https://padlet.com/clairea/1rotdb2yyuls/wish/127739098 https://padlet.com/clairea/1rotdb2yyuls/wish/127837868  Ontological arguments are arguments, for the conclusion that God exists, from premises which are supposed to derive from some source other than observation of the world—e.g., from reason alone. In other words, ontological arguments are arguments from nothing but analytic, a priori and necessary premises to the conclusion that God exists ]]> 2016-10-03 11:43:49 UTC https://padlet.com/clairea/1rotdb2yyuls/wish/127837868 Agnostic https://padlet.com/clairea/1rotdb2yyuls/wish/127839513 Belived that religion was largly harmful and superstion ]]> 2016-10-03 11:53:44 UTC https://padlet.com/clairea/1rotdb2yyuls/wish/127839513 https://padlet.com/clairea/1rotdb2yyuls/wish/127839784 Anselm uses the word exsists incorrectly.
- exsistance is not a property of things but the ideas of those things]]> 2016-10-03 11:55:24 UTC https://padlet.com/clairea/1rotdb2yyuls/wish/127839784