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    Premise (3) of the ontological argument is subject to a d... — Carmelics
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    Premise (3) of the ontological argument is subject to a decisive challenge and cannot be asserted unconditionally

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    • 1.Truly predicating a property of something without specifying intentional conditions entails an affirmation that the thing exists
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    • 2.From 'Macron is the President of France' one can conclude that Macron exists
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    • 3.'Pegasus is a winged horse' is strictly speaking false without an intentional context qualifier
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    A second objection, anticipated by Descartes in the Fifth Meditation, is that truly predicating a property of something without specifying any conditions or intentional contexts involves an affirmation that the thing exists. So from the truth of “Macron is the President of France”, one can conclude that Macron exists. As a result, “Pegasus is a winged horse” is strictly speaking false, though by using the intentional context “according to the myth” we can say, truly, “According to the myth, Pega
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