The Modal Argument for the Existence of God |
Contents
The Logic of the Argument | 6 |
Anselm on Perfection and Necessary Existence | 49 |
Plantinga on Necessary Being | 84 |
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actual world affirmative existential proposition Anselm argued assertion assume assumption Axiom believe Brouwersche system causally impossible cease to exist chapter Charles Hartshorne concept of God conceptual system depends exist is causally existence is logically existence of God external question factually necessary false Findlay follows giraffes God's existence God's nonexistence Hartshorne imagine implies individual inference interpretation knows all truths language game linguistic framework logical necessity logically contingent logically impossible logically necessary existence logically necessary truth logically possible Malcolm Malcolm's argument mean modal argument modal logic modal operators modus ponens N-Np neces necessarily numbers ontological argument Penelhum perfect knower Perhaps Phillips philosophers Plantinga plausible possible world predicate presumed presumption proof propositional calculus Proslogion provable real world reason regard relation of accessibility religious Robert Merrihew Adams rules sary self-contradictory sense sentences solely by virtue Substitution instance suppose systems of modal theory true solely valid virtue of meaning-rules W₁