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    If necessary existence were analytically contained in 'di... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→A divine person is essentially eternally omnipotent and exists necessarily.

    If necessary existence were analytically contained in 'divine person,' the ontological argument would be trivially valid, which even theists like Plantinga deny.

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    • 1.Plantinga rejects that necessary existence is analytically contained in the concept of a maximally great being.
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    • 2.If the ontological argument were trivially valid, it would prove God's existence by definition alone, requiring no substantive metaphysical work.
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    • 3.Plantinga's modal ontological argument requires possible worlds analysis, showing he treats the argument as non-trivial.
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    • 1.Trivial validity doesn't entail unsoundness; some arguments validly move from definitions to true conclusions.
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    • 2.Plantinga's denial of the argument's triviality may reflect epistemological concerns about logical intuitions, not metaphysical reality.
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    • 3.The claim conflates 'analytically contained' with 'immediately obvious' — analytic truths can still require significant conceptual work to establish.
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