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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'Rationality and Goodness' and 'The Nature and Communication of Substance'

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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 / b. Teleological Proof

2595	If the universe is a perfect agreement of uncommunicating substances, there must be a common source [Leibniz]
	Full Idea: The perfect agreement of so many substances which have no communication whatever with each other can only come from a common source.
	From: Gottfried Leibniz (The Nature and Communication of Substance [1690], p.120)