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“if there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god! Hence there are no gods.” - Nietzche

“However, even if Kant is right about existence not being a property, it may be true that "existing necessarily" is a property…. if we can form a concept of something that cannot possibly exist, it looks like we could form a concept of something that cannot possibly fail to exist. And that is exactly the concept the ontological argument needs.”

“Descartes’ method here is a kind of privileging of doubt over belief.”