Understanding Ontological Arguments

What type of reasoning do ontological arguments use?

• A priori reasoning

• Empirical reasoning

• A posteriori reasoning

• Inductive reasoning

According to Anselm, why must God exist?

• It is greater to exist in reality than only in the mind

• God can be conceived as non-existent

• God is a supremely perfect being

• Existence is a perfection

What does Descartes' ontological argument conclude?

• God exists

• God does not exist

• Existence is not a predicate

• God's existence is impossible

What is the main critique by Gaunilo regarding Anselm's argument?

• Anything can be defined into existence

• Existence is not a perfection

• God's concept is self-contradictory

• God's existence is not necessary

What does Hume argue about the ontological argument?

• 'God does not exist' is not a contradiction

• 'God does not exist' is a contradiction

• Existence is a predicate

• God's existence is necessary

According to Kant, why does the ontological argument fail?

• God's existence is impossible

• God's existence is necessary

• Existence is a predicate

• Existence is not a predicate

What is the basis of Malcolm's ontological argument?

• God's existence is always contingent

• God's existence is not necessary

• God's existence is always possible

• God's existence is either necessary or impossible

What does Anselm's argument suggest about the concept of God?

• God is a being than which nothing greater can be conceived

• God is a being that can be conceived as non-existent

• God is not the greatest conceivable being

• God is a being that lacks perfection

What does Descartes claim about the idea of God?

• It is the idea of an imperfect being

• It is the idea of a non-existent being

• It is the idea of a supremely perfect being

• It is the idea of a flawed being

What does Kant argue about the concept of existence?

• Non-existence is a property

• To say something exists doesn't add anything to the concept of it

• To say something exists adds essential properties to it

• Existence is the most important property