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A maximalist account of divine necessity holds that the proposition ‘God exists’ is metaphysically necessary, which the chapter interprets as being ‘logically necessary’ when informative designators are substituted for any co-referring uninfomative designators. But in that case the proposition there is a God, however God is picked out by essential properties, would be such that its negation entails a contradiction. That is very implausible, since it entails tha...
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- Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion
- Publication date:
- 2015-04-30
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- 2015
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pubs:1013573
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Could god be a necessary being?
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