Gödel’s ontological proof for the existence of God
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The ELI5 is the same as for all ontological arguments (Aquinus, Anselm, Craig, etc):
* God is the best thing possible.
* A real God is better than an imaginary God.
* Therefore, God is real.
God has the ‘maximum’ of all properties – he is maximally powerful, maximally knowledgable, maximally good, etc. This also means he is maximally existant: he exists. Therefore, he exists.
It’s quite a semantic argument, but it has its advocates.
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Godel’s argument, specifically, uses symbolic logic to make the same argument. It’s a lot ‘tighter’ for its rigour, but still flawed.
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