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Letters

Letters to the Editor

God and the Spice Girls • What’s a Theory? • Solipsists unite! • Meanings and Illusions

God and the Spice Girls

Dear Sir,

A couple of letters in Issue 17 caught my eye. David Clarke is right that existence is not like other predicates. But the oddity of “Most tame tigers exist but some do not” is not due entirely to the nature of existence, as we see if we substitute “characters in David Hare’s plays” for “tame tigers”. And his attempt to use Anselm’s logic to prove God’s nonexistence fails because at least one of his premises is at the very least suspect. He implies that a God known by everyone is greater than a God not so known.

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