A New And Improved Argument For A Necessary Being

Australasian Journal of Philosophy 89 (2):357–359 (2011)
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I suggest two improvements to Joshua Rasmussen’s intriguing recent argument that a causally powerful being necessarily exists.

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10.1080/00048402.2010.548392

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A New Argument for a Necessary Being.Joshua Rasmussen - 2011 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 89 (2):351-356.
From a necessary being to god.Joshua Rasmussen - 2009 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 66 (1):1-13.

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