“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must publish.” – Wittgengenerator 2.0 As we all know, boys and girls, the mechanical industrialization of philosophy was an unqualified boon to academic productivity. It is hard to believe, indeed, that Once Upon a Time there were merely a few hundred journals published by a few thousand academicians toiling slowly in their dusty cubicles. We can all remember, can’t we, how it all began? The lonely professor noticed with dismay (one day) that not one word he had written in his twenty-year career in academia had been read by a single human being. And…
The Science Creative Quarterly
By Kevin Heinrich
Kevin Heinrich is a philosophy grad school dropout who currently teaches high school math.
A TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENT
(Evidence for FSM) A classic argument for the existence of God is known as the Ontological Argument (henceforth OA). This argument was developed by St. Anselm in the eleventh century, but has been greatly improved upon in the ensuing years. The argument, in a nutshell, is that a perfect being must necessarily exist. It is part of the very nature of a perfect being to be real- all beings which do not exist are by definition imperfect. This is because it is better to exist than to not exist (i.e. to exist brings you closer to perfection). So if we…