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Showing posts with label S5. Show all posts
Showing posts with label S5. Show all posts
Thursday, September 16, 2021

An ontological argument from the possible nondefectiveness of modality

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Necessarily, if it is necessary that there is no God, then modal reality is bad. (Making the existence of God impossible is terrible!) Nec...
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Friday, May 10, 2019

Anti-S5

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Suppose narrowly logical necessity L L is provability from some recursive consistent set of axioms and narrowly logical possibility M L is...
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Tuesday, January 23, 2018

An asymmetry between the theistic and atheistic modal ontological arguments

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A simple version of the modal ontological argument goes as follows: Necessarily: If there is a God, then necessarily there is a God. (Prem...
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Friday, May 31, 2013

A Cosmological Argument based on the Empire State Building

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Assume: Necessarily, every exact duplicate of the Empire State Building has a cause. Necessarily, if an exact duplicate of the Empire...
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Adams' ontological argument

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Robert Adams' modal ontological argument in his piece on Anselm in The Virtue of Faith seems not to get much attention. Ada...
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Thursday, October 2, 2008

S5

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In response to a question from a student, I explained S5 as the claim that modal truths don't vary between worlds—a modal truth, w...
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