Sunday, January 4, 2009

Big Demo : Proving God's Existence...

Just an idea that the big demo ever would be the demo of god existence isn't ? it shouldn't not be so far a software demo (that is of course the main dedication of this blog) but it would be obviously an outstanding demo as well. Related to this ontological topic, each of us behaves like our customer use to do with our software product: they don't know what to think about our product and they want some proofs, they want a demo that will prove our software existence related to their wishes.
Have a look now to Saint Anselm's work who was one of the first to attempt an ontological argument for God's existence and who proposed the following nice argument :

(1) God is the thought object than which no thought object can be thought to be greater
oh i assume everybody will agree with that definition , God indeed is that entity than which nothing greater can be conceived.

But now suppose that :
(2) God is only in the intellect that means God is thought of, but does not exist

But certainly in this case :
(3) any thought object that can be thought to exist in reality can be thought to be greater than any thought object that is only in the intellect

And it cannot be doubted that :
(4) God can be thought to exist in reality

Therefore :
(5) Some thought object can be thought to be greater than the thought object than which no thought object can be thought to be greater [1,2,3,4]

Which is a contradiction, because we have to abandon our supposition that God is only in the intellect, therefore God has to exist in reality, too.

This demo is based on the acceptation of the first premise (1) that suppose Existence is perfection and so as God is though as the perfect being he also need to exist to be perfect. For instance, if one had put the inverse principle that non-existence is perfection, he would have been able to prove in the same way the God's non existence. (see the Necessary nonexistence
by Douglas Gasking)

Our demo audience for software need proofs, they need to trust us and to agree with us at the beginning that means on the first features and principles for which we start with them to build our value proposition message.

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