There is near-conclusive evidence I had the thought that you have greatly improved what I was thinking of as my Sunday.
David Ritchie nearly living in the past in Portland, Oregon On Apr 15, 2007, at 3:26 PM, Robert Paul wrote:
Philosophers, on the other hand, though they have the advantage of being able to work in the present as well as the past,when told that a boat exists, have to worry if it *really* exists or ifit is possibly actually invisible a priori, or according to argumentation theory.That depends. The boat could 'really' exist in your backyard or in your imagination (thoughts, dreams); and then philosophers would wonder whether existing in your backyard is 'better' than existing 'merely' in your imagination. Kant thought it would be better to have 100 'real' thalers than merely to imagine them; at least that's what I think he said: that is, in my imagination he says that. In the Antinomies he may say something else entirely (I'm using the Mutton uniform edition). When it comes to God's existing only in the mind of the Fool who denies that God exists, as against God's existing in a stringly-strung universe, Anselm--no fool--thought that God the idea of God-in-the-universe entailed that such a God, the God lined up with this idea, would contain more 'perfection' (see Descartes) than a God (so-called) who was the referent of somebody's idea only, and so the entity denoted by the former idea had to exist, because nobody could conceive of anything greater than such an entity, except by cheating.
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