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Re:Found around 250 hilarious CS quotes while browsing Notep... by yreg on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @05:25AM (#33517769)
It's also the cartesian ontological argument for the existence of God.

>The God is perfect.

>If the God did not exist it wouldn't be perfect.

>Therefore God must exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontological_argument#Ren%C3%A9...

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Re:Found around 250 hilarious CS quotes while browsing Notep... by afiori on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @08:31AM (#33518729)
The ontological argument is a valid deduction

> A, B implies not A thus not B

The problem is that you have to prove both A and (B implies not A), without self referentially assuming it in the first place,

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Re:Found around 250 hilarious CS quotes while browsing Notep... by quickthrower2 on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @12:05AM (#33527698)
Sounds like proof by contradiction
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Re:Found around 250 hilarious CS quotes while browsing Notep... by quickthrower2 on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @03:15AM (#33528687)
Also the definition of an alibi!
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