On Kant’s hidden ambivalence toward existence in his critique of the ontological argument

Giovanni Mion*

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Abstract

The paper explores Kant’s attitude toward existence in the Critique of Pure Reason. It has two main goals: first, it argues that Kant’s criticisms of the ontological argument might be vitiated by an ambivalence toward existence, and then it attempts to provide a solution to the ambivalence in question. Finally, since my reading of Kant assumes that for him, existence is governed by the rule of existential generalization, I also prove the following biconditional: existence is not a real predicate iff existential generalization is valid.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1515-1522
Number of pages8
JournalJournal of Applied Logics
Volume5
Issue number7
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2018

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Keywords

  • Existential generalization
  • Kant
  • Ontological argument

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