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Alvin Plantinga,The Nature of Necessity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1974).
Ibid., section 6 of chapter X, pp. 212–213.
Charles Hartshorne,Man's Vision of God (Harper & Row, Inc., 1941).
Norman Malcolm, “Anselm's Ontological Arguments,”Philosophical Review 69 (1960): 41–62.
Plantinga, section 7 of chapter X, pp. 213–217, which is entitled “A Victorious Modal Version.”
J.N. Findlay, “Can God's Existence Be Disproved?”,Mind 57 (1948): 108–118.
Ibid., pp. 216–217.
Cf. Ibid., p. 214.
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I wish to express my gratitude to Professor Howard Pospesel at the University of Miami for valuable comments on an earlier version of this paper, and to my wife, Barbara, for many helpful suggestions throughout the revision process.
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Wingard, J.C. On a not quite yet “victorious” modal version of the ontological argument for the existence of God. Int J Philos Relig 33, 47–57 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01314316
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