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    God exists. — Carmelics
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    God exists.

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    3 reasons for
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    • 1.Our own existence is evident.
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    • 2.Our evident existence requires a necessary being to serve as its sufficient reason.
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    • 3.This necessary being must be independent, eternal, and simple.
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    Reason for 2 of 3
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    • 1.It is possible that God exists.
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    • 2.God is not a contingent being, i.e., either it is not possible that God exists, or it is necessary that God exists.
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    • 3.Therefore, it is necessary that God exists.
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    Reason for 3 of 3
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    • 1.If it is possible that God exists necessarily, then God exists necessarily (by the principle that possibly necessary entails necessary).
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    • 2.It is possible that God exists necessarily.
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    • 3.If God exists necessarily, then God exists.
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    AI-extracted2/3 agreementValid
    SEP: ontological-arguments
    See Malcolm 1960, Hartshorne 1965, and Plantinga 1974 for closely related arguments.
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    It is possible that that God exists. God is not a contingent being, i.e., either it is not possible that God exists, or it is necessary that God exists. Hence, it is necessary that God exists. Hence, God exists. (See Malcolm 1960, Hartshorne 1965, and Plantinga 1974 for closely related arguments.)
    Extraction notes

    Validity: The extracted argument faithfully represents the reasoning in the source passage, and the premises logically support the conclusion: premise 1 (possibility) combined with premise 2 (no contingency, so either impossible or necessary) entails necessity, from which God's existence follows.

    Our own existence is evident.
    Our own soul is dependent on the world and therefore cannot be this necessary be...
    The world is a composite and therefore cannot be this necessary being.
    Therefore, it is necessary that God exists.
    This necessary being must be independent, eternal, and simple.

    Confidence: Explicit modal ontological argument laid out step by step in the text.

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