Q&A: The Ontological Argument And Possible Worlds That Don't Have Any Beings

Evan,

Thank you for responding to my questions about the Ontological Argument. I've been trying to prove that the properties of existing in a world and being omniscient and omnipotent in that world are all together logically consistent. Intuitively, I think they might be consistent, but I haven't been able to prove it yet.

In logic and mathematics, consistency of a theory can be proven only so far as relative to another theory that is already assumed to be consistent. As an example, Lobachevski...