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    Challenges→Hume's and Kant's criticisms of the ontological argument do not target the strongest version of Anselm's argument found in Proslogion chapter 3.

    If 'exists necessarily' is still a predicate attributed to a concept, Kant's objection that no predicate can guarantee extra-mental existence remains fully operative.

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    • 1.Predicates describe properties of concepts; existence is not a property but a precondition for having any properties whatsoever.
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    • 2.Modal predicates like 'necessarily exists' still require conceptual instantiation, leaving the gap between thought and reality unbridged.
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    • 3.Kant's distinction between analytic (concept-contained) and synthetic (reality-dependent) truths applies equally to modal claims.
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    • 1.Necessary existence may differ fundamentally from contingent predicates; it describes a metaphysical status, not an addable property.
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    • 2.The claim conflates semantic necessity (true by concept) with metaphysical necessity (true of reality), which can come apart.
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    • 3.Some modal truths about abstract objects (numbers, propositions) seem immune to Kant's objection about extra-mental existence.
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