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'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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Main Authors: Pruss, Alexander R. (Author), Rasmussen, Joshua L. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Necessity (Philosophy)
God > Proof, Ontological.
Contingency (Philosophy)
Essentialism (Philosophy)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Metaphysical possibility and necessity
  • An argument from contingency
  • An argument from possible causes
  • From possible causes II
  • From modal uniformity
  • From necessary abstracts to necessary concreta
  • The argument from percetions
  • Arguments from a ncessary being.