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Single Idea 5607

[catalogued under 28. God / B. Proving God / 1. Proof of God]

Full Idea

There are three proofs of the existence of God: the physico-theological, the cosmological, and the ontological. There are no more of them, and there also cannot be any more.

Gist of Idea

Only three proofs of God: the physico-theological (evidence), the cosmological (existence), the ontological (a priori)

Source

Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781], B619/A591)

Book Reference

Kant,Immanuel: 'Critique of Pure Reason', ed/tr. Guyer,P /Wood,A W [CUO 1998], p.563


A Reaction

It is hard to deny this, though the 'physico-theological' group may be a sizeable family. The immediate difficulty may be that physical evidence supports something less than God, the cosmological is just speculation, and a priori proofs won't work.