| 21. | Such reasoning underpins'modal'formulations of the ontological argument.
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| 22. | Ren?Descartes ( 1596 1650 ) composed a number of ontological arguments, which differed from Anselm's formulation.
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| 23. | He presented the ontological argument, but rejected it in favor of proofs that invoke cause and effect alone.
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| 24. | Towards the end of the book, Johnson presents his version of the ontological argument for the existence of God.
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| 25. | Prover9 subsequently discovered a simpler, formally valid ( if not necessarily sound ) ontological argument from a single non-logical premise.
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| 26. | More specifically, ontological arguments tend to start with an " a priori " theory about the organization of the universe.
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| 27. | Anselm in the ontological argument, and Aquinas in the teleological argument both use logic to make a proof of belief.
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| 28. | He omitted those arguments he believed to be insufficient, such as the ontological argument due to St . Anselm of Canterbury.
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| 29. | To these considerations could be added the ontological argument : life, like the rest of the Universe, exists simply because it can.
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| 30. | For example, this is why Kant thinks the ontological argument fails, because it doesn't limit itself merely to objects of possible experience.
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