If God's existence follows necessarily from a coherent concept of maximal perfection, then the argument's validity cannot be defeated merely by generating structurally analogous but incoherent parodies.
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(de Finetti's usage in the context of the Dutch Book argument for probabilism)
A subject is coherent if their unconditional degrees of belief do not permit a Dutch Book (a guaranteed loss through a combination of bets) to be made against them
concept of maximal perfection(philosophy of religion and ontology)
The idea of something that has every possible perfect quality or excellence to the greatest degree—often used in philosophy to describe what God would be like.
defeated(describing when reasons for believing something stop working)
Undermined or weakened; knocked down or shown to be insufficient.
follows necessarily from(logical argumentation)
Logically must result from or be required by something else, like how 'all bachelors are unmarried' necessarily follows from what 'bachelor' means.
parodies(philosophical method and criticism)
In philosophy, arguments that imitate the same logical structure as another argument but with absurd or obviously false content.