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I'm not saying the ontological argument is correct, just that your reasoning doesn't sufficiently refute it.

• goto11 7y ago
  It doesn't refute it per se. It just shows that The Real Santa Claus also exists by the same token. Which is not really a logical contradiction so if you want to believe that, more power to you.
  • vinceguidry 7y ago
    The real Santa Claus did exist, the one the current myth is based on.
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    • goto11 7y ago
      Fair enough, but that is totally beside the point.
      • vinceguidry 7y ago
        Maybe sibling comment is more to your liking.
  • vinceguidry 7y ago
    More generally, you can't attack the reasoning with any amount of imaginary horrors or delights. This is because the ontological argument doesn't try to argue imaginary things that are not God exist. Just that the imagination we have of God does exist, as the greatest thing ever. This is because of God's special property, that of being the greatest thing ever, that any imagination greater would just become the new God. This property is not shared by things that are not God, such as Santa Claus. So you can't use the ontological argument for God to also show that Santa Claus exists. Santa Claus isn't the greatest thing ever, so Santa Claus isn't bound by the rules of logic to exist.
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