Ontological argument Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Sankara's dictum=== An approach to supporting the possibility premise in Plantinga's version of the argument was attempted by [[Alexander Pruss]]. He started with the 8thβ9th-century AD Indian philosopher [[Adi Shankara|Sankara]]'s dictum that if something is impossible, we cannot have a perception (even a non-veridical one) that it is the case. It follows that if we have a perception that ''p'', then even though it might not be the case that ''p'', it is at least the case that ''possibly p''. If mystics in fact perceive the existence of a maximally great being, it follows that the existence of a maximally great being is at least possible.<ref>{{Cite journal| first=Alexander R. | last=Pruss | url=http://bearspace.baylor.edu/Alexander_Pruss/www/papers/Samkara.html | title=Samkara's Principle and Two Ontomystical Arguments | journal=International Journal for Philosophy of Religion | volume=49 | issue=2 | year=2001 | pages=111β120 | doi=10.1023/A:1017582721225| s2cid=169625246 }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page