♦ Four of Diamonds
the ontological and a priori family
The Argument from Error
Josiah Royce
The Religious Aspect of Philosophy
DemonstrativeConcludes that something exists.
- Argument form
- Transcendental argument (from the actuality of error to the conditions of its possibility)
- Concludes to
- Infinite or maximal being (one actual infinite thought holding every judgment and its object)
- Premise ground
- Epistemic (a judgment errs only against an object held with it within one thought)
- Modal strength
- Actual
- What it licenses
- Period
- Nineteenth Century (1885)
- Tradition
- Idealist (absolute)
Further reading
- Source text, public domain
The Religious Aspect of Philosophy2015.22454.The-Religious-Aspect-Of-Philosophy.pdf - A scholarly account
Read an exposition of the argument
This formulation is ours, composed from the primary source and compressed to fit the card; the argument admits of other statements. Objections have been made to every argument in the deck; where one is linked above, it is chosen by us, not written by us.
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