The 'Before Logic' Ontological Argument
By well-wisher
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Premise 1: If there was a time when logic didn't exist then, because what is logical equals what is possible, there was a time when nothing was illogical and thus everything was possible - the flying spaghetti monster; a pink unicorn whether invisible or not (because logic didn't exist); magic; god and the devil, heaven and hell etcetera
Premise 2: It is logical that everything has a beginning. Thus logic itself had to have had a beginning.
Premise 3: If something had a beginning then it is logical that there was a period before that beginning.
Conclusion: There was a period before logic existed; before logic existed nothing was illogical and thus god might have existed and magic (a mad universe without rules or limitations) certainly would have.
Another way of expressing this argument: There must have been a point at which the rules of what is possible came into existence and, before that point, anything would have been possible.
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