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Originally Posted by Protoman2050  Now you're making me think more. Thank you!
But, "invisible" and "pink" are contradictory. That invalidaes your counter-example, b/c logically impossible ideas by definition cannot exist in reality. There's nothing logically impossible about God's existence.
What if remove the "self-evident" part, and just try to use all of this prove God exists?
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Invisible and pink are not contradictory. Visible and invisible are contradictory. Things can have color but not be visible because the visibility of an object may be limited by an individuals inability to see the object.
That's beside the point though. Get rid of the pink concept and then my example would be fine by your reasoning anyway and the argument would not change.
Another point. If you think God exists and is anything other than an amorphous being, then by your reasoning his existence would be contradictory because he is invisible but would contain observable properties.
Getting rid of self-evident would do nothing for your argument since you invalidated a premise necessary for the conclusion to follow by improperly applying an idea of Hume's.