Necessary existence /
'Necessary Existence' breaks ground on one of the deepest questions anyone ever asks. Why is there anything? The classic answer is in terms of a necessary foundation. Yet, why think that is the correct answer? Pruss and Rasmussen present an original defense of the hypothesis that there is...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | 'Necessary Existence' breaks ground on one of the deepest questions anyone ever asks. Why is there anything? The classic answer is in terms of a necessary foundation. Yet, why think that is the correct answer? Pruss and Rasmussen present an original defense of the hypothesis that there is a concrete necessary being capable of providing a foundation for the existence of things. They offer six main arguments, divided into six chapters. The first argument is an up-to-date presentation and assessment of a traditional causal-based argument from contingency. The next five arguments are new "possibility-based" arguments that make use of twentieth-century advances in modal logic. The arguments present possible pathways to an intriguing and far-reaching conclusion. The final chapter answers the most challenging objections to the existence of necessary things. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-215) and index. |
| ISBN: | 019874689X 9780198746898 |