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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'Truth-makers and dependence' and 'Reply to First Objections'

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

234	We couldn't discuss the non-existence of the One without knowledge of it [Plato]
	Full Idea: There must be knowledge of the one, or else not even the meaning of the words 'if the one does not exist' would be known.
	From: Plato (Parmenides [c.364 BCE], 160d)

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / a. Cosmological Proof

3634	We can't prove a first cause from our inability to grasp infinity [Descartes]
	Full Idea: My inability to grasp an infinite chain of successive causes without a first cause does not entail that there must be a first cause, just as my inability to grasp infinite divisibility of finite things does not make that impossible.
	From: René Descartes (Reply to First Objections [1641], 106)