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Brian Leftow offers a theist theory of necessity and possibility, and a new sort of argument for God's existence. He argues that necessities of logic and mathematics are determined by God's nature, but that it is events in God's mind - his imagination and choice - that account for nec...

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Main Author:	Leftow, Brian, 1956-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Subjects:	God > Proof, Ontological. Necessity (Philosophy) Possibility. Theism.

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