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Universe Indexed Properties and the Fate of the Ontological Argument

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

James F. Sennett
James F. Sennett
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Department of Philosophy, Pacific Lutheran University
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If the contemporary rebirth of the ontological argument had its conception in Norman Malcolm's discovery of a second Anselmian argument ([2]) it had its full-term delivery as a healthy philosophical progeny with Alvin Plantinga's sophisticated modal version presented in the tenth chapter of The Nature of Necessity ([8]). This latter argument has been the centre of a huge body of literature over the last fifteen years, and deservedly so. One is impressed that this version of Anselm's jewel is valid and sound if any is.

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Research Article
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Religious Studies , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , March 1991 , pp. 65 - 79
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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