The Modal Perfection Argument for the Existence of a Supreme Being
Philo 6 (2):299-313 (2003)
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The Modal Perfection Argument (MPA) for the existence of a Supreme Being is a new ontological argument that is rooted in the insights of Anselm, Leibniz and Gödel. Something is supreme if and only if nothing is possibly greater, and a perfection is a property that it is better to have than not. The premises of MPA are that supremity is a perfection, perfections entail only perfections, and the negation of a perfection is not a perfection. I do three things in this paper. First, I prove that MPA is valid by constructing a formal deduction of it in second order modal logic. Second, I argue that its premises are true. Third, I defend the argument and the logic used against some likely objections
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Keywords | Philosophy and Religion |
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ISBN(s) | 1098-3570 |
DOI | 10.5840/philo20036222 |
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