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'An analysis of arguments for the existence of God will result in valid philosophical reasons to believe in God.' Discuss and assess this claim with reference to the following two arguments for the existence of God: (i) Religious Experience (ii) Ontological Argument I will first discuss the Ontological Argument for the existence of God, most famously expounded by Anselm, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1078. He wrote in The Proslogion that he considered the existence of God to be logically necessary. His reasoning, unlike that for the Teleological Argument and the Cosmological Argument, is a priori because it does not rely on experience from the world around us or on the evidence of our own senses. It is deductive, because the conclusion is contained within the premises, and analytic, because it is supposedly true by definition alone. All other versions of this argument are generally considered to be restatements of Anselm's. The simplest form...

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