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Ideas for 'On the Question of Absolute Undecidability', 'Twilight of the Idols' and 'Philosophical Theology'

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28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / b. Ontological Proof critique

18312	The supreme general but empty concepts must be compatible, and hence we get 'God' [Nietzsche]
	Full Idea: The supreme concepts of philosophers cannot be incommensurate with one another, be incompatible with one another... Thus they acquired their stupendous concept 'God'.... The last, thinnest, emptiest is placed as the first, as cause in itself.
	From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols [1889], 2.4)

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / b. Teleological Proof

1451	Design is seen in the way ideas match the world, in the mechanisms of evolution, and in values [Tennant,FR, by PG]
	Full Idea: There is evidence for design in the correspondence of pure ideas to the world, in the origin and mechanism of evolution, and in the existence of moral values and beauty.
	From: report of F.R. Tennant (Philosophical Theology [1930], II.IV) by PG - Db (ideas)