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Evidence in philosophy

Logic: Arguments in philosophy are made using mathematical ideas such that they cannot be contested. Truth tables are used to present the flow of an argument using a range of symbols although all arguments can be condensed into using the symbols 'not' and 'implies'. This is not always the clearest way to read and understand an argument and so many other symbols are also used. Despite philosophy being seen as a potentially subjective discipline it uses this positivist approach when providing evidence for claims

The Ontological argument: The claim for the existence of an omnipotent, omniscient and omnipotent god by means of the ontological argument make it illogical to deny the existence of a 'greatest possible being'. This philosophical argument is different to many others by its nature of being non-empirical, not based on experience or evidence. Instead it defines God in a very specific way and goes on to compare a concept and an existence.