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  2. Gödel's ontological proof - Wikipedia

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    A humorous variant of Gödel's ontological proof is mentioned in Quentin Canterel's novel The Jolly Coroner. [26] [page needed] The proof is also mentioned in the TV series Hand of God. [specify] Jeffrey Kegler's 2007 novel The God Proof depicts the (fictional) rediscovery of Gödel's lost notebook about the ontological proof. [27]

  3. Transcendental argument for the existence of God - Wikipedia

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    The Transcendental Argument for the existence of God (TAG) is an argument that attempts to prove the existence of God by appealing to the necessary conditions for the possibility of experience and knowledge. [1] A version was formulated by Immanuel Kant in his 1763 work The Only Possible Argument in Support of a Demonstration of the Existence ...

  4. Pascal's wager - Wikipedia

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    Belief in God doesn't depend upon rational evidence, no matter which position. [10] Frederick Copleston writes that Pascal did not intend the wager as proof of God's existence or even a substitute for such proofs. He argues that the wager must be understood in the context of Pascal addressing the wager to those who "though they are also ...

  5. Ontological argument - Wikipedia

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    In Spinoza's Short Treatise on God, Man, and His Well-Being, he wrote a section titled "Treating of God and What Pertains to Him", in which he discusses God's existence and what God is. He starts off by saying: "whether there is a God, this, we say, can be proved". [27] His proof for God follows a similar structure as Descartes' ontological ...

  6. Trademark argument - Wikipedia

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    The trademark argument [1] is an a priori argument for the existence of God developed by the French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes.The name derives from the fact that the idea of God existing in each person "is the trademark, hallmark or stamp of their divine creator".

  7. Proof sketch for Gödel's first incompleteness theorem

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    Moreover, one may define a statement form Proof(x,y), which for every two numbers x and y is provable if and only if x is the Gödel number of a proof of the statement S and y = G(S). Proof(x,y) is in fact an arithmetical relation, just as "x + y = 6" is, though a much more complicated one.

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  9. Proslogion - Wikipedia

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    The God which is an element of V is a. greater thing than God in the mind. ~ ∃x. x ≥ g & ∃x. x > g God is the greater-than-which-can-not-be-conceived and God is not the greater-than-which-can-not-be-conceived. Contradiction. Conclusion of the reduction. g ∈ V Lemma Q.E.D: Conclusion of lemma ∀v. ∃r. r = C (v) Applying the character of V