A modified Meditation: exploring a grounding modal ontological argument

Religious Studies 58 (4):801 - 813 (2022)
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I set out and explore an argument for God's existence based on the idea that the possibility of God requires the existence of God as a ground. After setting this argument out, I compare it to other arguments for God, concentrating on an argument from Descartes's Third Meditation. I then address various objections and conclude by setting out a non-theistic version of the argument.

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Stephen Kearns
Florida State University

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