The ontological argument: an “office” solution

Abstract

There are two important facts that prevent the success of the so called "ontological argument": 1) the use of the concept of existence as a real predicate and 2) the confusion of de re and de dicto modalities. The article considers a way to overcome the former problem proposed by the Czech logician Pavel Tichý.

Keywords

• ontological argument
• concept of existence
• I. Kant
• P. Tichý
• semantics of possible worlds