Abstract

The chapter shows that Scotus defends the view that ‘God exists’ is both metaphysically and logically necessary. Thus, Scotus maintains that denying that God exists involves asserting a contradiction, and that this can be shown to be the case. But while Scotus believes that it can be shown that there is a concept in virtue of which ‘God exists’ is self-evident, he also believes that human beings in the current run of things can have no access to the content of this concept. The chapter also relates the claims that God is both metaphysically and logically necessary to the kind of causally dependent modalities that Scotus employs in his attempt to prove God’s existence.