A modest modal ontological argument

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Ratio 22 (3):338-349 (2009)
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We formulate a new modal ontological argument; specifically, we show that there is a possible world in which an entity that has at least the property of omnipotence exists. Then we argue that if such an entity is possible, it is necessary as well.

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10.1111/j.1467-9329.2009.00436.x

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