V. a Modal Model for Proving the Existence of God
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IN the first section of this paper, I employ an ontological type argument to show that the possibility of God implies, in a standard system of quantified modal logic, the existence and uniqueness of God. In the second section, I argue that the very idea of a supreme being is meaningful. In the third section, I use a cosmological type argument to prove that it is possible for God to exist. In the fourth and final section, I briefly discuss the plausibility of adopting the modal logic used in the first section.
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