The ontological argument and the motivational centres of lives

Religious Studies 46 (2):233-249 (2010)
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Assuming S₅, the main controversial premise in modal ontological arguments is the possibility premise, such as that possibly a maximally great being exists. I shall offer a new way of arguing that the possibility premise is probably true

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