All I can do is defend the intent beyond the butchered excerpts and encourage everyone to think critically instead of automatically siding with the cool, controversial side of a non-existent argument.
And that's where the "Islamophobia" smear comes in -- the ultimate, lazy substitute for a non-existent counter-argument.
Whatever is non-existent remains non-existent for ever and whatever is existent always exists.
But today, adult illiteracy rates are nearly non-existent (below 1percentt), making that argument pretty much invalid.
In addition, it has been established that people's evaluation of the logical strength of an argument is often biased by their pre-existent belief in the truth or falsity of the conclusion.
In our sample argument, the claim, that I conceive of an existent being than which no greater being can be conceived, admits of the two kinds of readings just distinguished.
In the final moments, Gomes has a tense argument with his sound man about the non-existent ambient noises his microphone is somehow picking up, like music in the middle of a forest.
Robert DiSalle (1994) suggests that the correct response to the hole argument is that the structure of spacetime be accepted as existent despite its failure to supervene on the reality of spacetime points.
For example, one can take the argument for indispensability described above and replace all references to existent entities with references to entities assumed to exist as follows.
However, this argument is not persuasive: the premiss that the non-existent cannot be thought or spoken about is dubious.
The only contender that remains, then, is that these truths are true in virtue of the ideas in an infinite and necessarily existent (divine) mind (Leibniz 1714 [1969]: 647; Adams 1994: 177ff).. Leibniz's argument stakes out one position on the grounding of necessary truths, but there are many rival and contending views that do not invoke the existence of a necessary, concrete divine being.
