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! ===Gottfried Leibniz=== [[File:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Bernhard Christoph Francke.jpg|thumb|upright|right|German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz attempted to prove the coherence of a "supremely perfect being".]] [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] saw a problem with Descartes' ontological argument: that Descartes had not asserted the coherence of a "supremely perfect" being. He proposed that, unless the coherence of a supremely perfect being could be demonstrated, the ontological argument fails. Leibniz saw perfection as impossible to analyse; therefore, it would be impossible to demonstrate that all perfections are incompatible. He reasoned that all perfections can exist together in a single entity, and that Descartes' argument is still valid.<ref name="oppy">{{Cite book |author=Oppy |first=Graham |url=http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ontological-arguments |title=Ontological Arguments |date=15 July 2011 |publisher=Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |orig-date=8 February 1996}}</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