Ontological Disproof of God's Existence

• Main Author: WILLIAMS, John N.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1992
• Subjects: Philosophy
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/253; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/1252/viewcontent/OntologicalDisproofGodsExistence_1992_afv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

An initial reading of Hume's Principle is that no necessary truth can be denied without contradiction, whereas all existential propositions can. Therefore it is self-contradictory to say,that any existential claim is necessarily true, since it follows that this claim both can and cannot be denied without self-contradiction. Thus any claim of the form 'X necessarily exists' is a self-contradiction, even if X is God.