♦ Five of Diamonds
the ontological and a priori family
The Possibility Proof
Immanuel Kant
Der einzig mögliche Beweisgrund zu einer Demonstration des Daseins Gottes (The Only Possible Argument)
DemonstrativeConcludes that something exists.
- Argument form
- Transcendental argument (from the possible to the actual ground that makes it possible)
- Concludes to
- Necessary being (one being of absolute necessity in which all possibility is grounded)
- Premise ground
- Metaphysical (all possibility presupposes something actual in which it is given)
- Modal strength
- Necessary (absolute necessity)
- What it licenses
- Period
- Eighteenth Century (1763)
- Tradition
- Kantian (pre-critical)
Further reading
- Source text, public domain
Der einzig mögliche Beweisgrund zu einer Demonstration des Daseins Gottesimmanuelkantsbew00kant.pdf - A scholarly account
Read an exposition of the argument - A principal objection
Read the objection in full
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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