Worksheetsontological argument
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The Ontological Argument.
Paley
St Anselm
St Aquinas
The Ontological Argument.
Inductive
Deductive
The Ontological Argument does not rely on:
Reasoning
Omnipotence
Empirical Evidence
This man said that existence is not a predicate - it tells us nothing of God and so he rejects the Ontological Argument. (Only type one word, otherwise your answer will be marked as incorrect.)
(a)
Gaunilo said that based on St Anselm's original version of the Ontological Argument, anything could be conceived in our minds to exist.
True
False
Gaunilo referred to...
A perfect pony
A perfect island
A perfect cake
This man said that statements about existence have to be synthetic - proved through sense experience - rather than analytic (just decided on in the mind).
Kant
Hume
Aquinas
How does Anselm describe God?
That than which nothing greater can be conceived
That which is the most perfect
That than which nothing more powerful can be conceived
That which is omnibenevloent
Name the writing in which Anselm outlined his OA.
Meditations
Proslogion
The Nature of Necessity
The Critique of Pure Reason
Name the writing in which Anselm outlined his OA.
Meditations
Proslogion
The Nature of Necessity
The Critique of Pure Reason
What is the meaning of ontological?
Concerned with perfection
Concerned with presence
Concerned with power
Concerned with being
What does 'reduction ad absurdum' mean?
Reduce to complexity
Reduce to absurdity
Reduce to perfection
Reduce to simplicity
A Priori and Deductive arguments base their reasoning on ...
Logic
Experience
Evidence
Prediction
A posteriori and Inductive arguments base their reasoning on ...
Logic
Experience
Evidence
Prediction
According to Anselm, how must God exist if he is the greatest possible being?
In the mind and in reality
In the mind
In reality
He doesn't exist
According to Anselm, God must be ...
Necessary
Contingent
A contingent being is a being which ...
Is not dependent on someone or something else to exist
Is dependent on someone or something else to exist
What was Gaunilo's objection to Anselm?
God doesn't exist
God exists, and so perfect islands exist
I can conceive of a perfect island, but this does not exist
Perfect islands exist
What does "the fool" means in the Proslogion.
Ignorants
Those who believe in God
Those who say "There is no God".
A dumb person.
Deductive arguments are based on?
No prior knowledge
Experience
Synthetic
Metaphysics
Inductive arguments are based on?
needing evidence
No knowledge required
Analytics
Transcendence
To Kant, the statement 'God exists' is synthetic because it can only be proved through experience.
True
False
Which theory?
Design Argument
Ontological Argument
Cosmological Argument
If the two premises are true, then it proves that God exists.
Design Argument
Ontological Argument
Cosmological Argument
