Reality, Existence, Possible Worlds

Authors

  • Dario Sacchi Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19272/202400702004

Keywords:

Metaphysics, Transcendence, Fictitious Entities, Possible Worlds, A Priori Proof of the Existence of God

Abstract

Hitherto metaphysics has usually relied upon the same concept of reality that prevails within common sense and natural science, i. e. being a possible object of sensible experience: but according to the rules of logic such a concept is incompatible with the assertion and even the assumption of a supersensible reality. However, we have no reason to consent to it because it derives from an undue absolutization of the pragmatic criterion according to which my actual body is given a pre-eminence over my dreamed or imagined bodies and my real world is given a pre-eminence over all those Leibnizian possible worlds that some analytical philosophers rightly consider to be as real as our real world. In fact, a correct ontology must admit the ultimate identity of possibility and reality; as for the existence of God, it is to be proved a priori, on the model of St. Anselm’s argument, not a posteriori.

Published

20-09-2024

How to Cite

Sacchi, Dario. “Reality, Existence, Possible Worlds”. Acta Philosophica 33, no. 2 (September 20, 2024): 259–266. Accessed December 14, 2024. https://www.actaphilosophica.it/article/view/4545.

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