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    Kant demonstrated that existence is not a predicate, unde... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Proponents of the fine-tuning argument for design may motivate a non-negligible ur-prior P(D) by appealing to a priori arguments for God's existence such as the ontological argument

    Kant demonstrated that existence is not a predicate, undermining the ontological argument's inference from conceivability to actuality.

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    • 1.Existence adds no new qualities to a concept; a real hundred dollars has no properties beyond an imagined hundred dollars.
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    • 2.Conceivability cannot guarantee actuality, since we can coherently imagine non-existent things without contradiction.
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    • 3.If existence were a predicate, we could derive contradictions by treating it like other properties in logical analysis.
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    • 1.Kant conflates existence-as-predicate with existence-as-property; existence might be a special logical operator, not a property.
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    • 2.Even if existence isn't a traditional predicate, Anselm's argument might work through modal or higher-order logical reasoning.
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    • 3.Kant's distinction doesn't address why conceiving a maximally great being should differ logically from conceiving other necessary truths.
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