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    Supports→If the ontological argument were sound, it would provide a rather decisive refutation of the argument from evil.

    If the ontological argument were sound, it would show not merely that there is an omnipotent, omniscient, and morally perfect being, but that it is necessary that such a being exists.

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    Morally perfect(describing a characteristic of God or a supreme being)
    Always acting in ways that are completely good and right, without any moral flaws or failings.
    Omniscient(describing God's knowledge)
    Knowing everything—all facts, all truths, and all events (past, present, and future).
    necessary (in philosophy)(as used in modal logic and metaphysics)
    Something that must be true or must happen; the opposite of contingent or accidental. A necessary truth couldn't possibly be false.

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    omnipotent(Used in the context of arguing about whether multiple omnipotent beings could coexist.)
    A being whose will is never thwarted; a being capable of bringing about any willed outcome.
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    An argument that seeks to demonstrate God's existence from the concept or definition of God alone, without appeal to empirical evidence.
    sound (argument)(as used in logic and argumentation)
    An argument is 'sound' when its logic is valid AND all its starting facts are actually true—so the conclusion must be true.

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    If the ontological argument were sound, it would provide a rather decisive refutation of the argument from evil. For in showing not merely that there is an omnipotent, omniscient, and morally perfect being, but also that it is necessary that such a being exists, it would entail that the proposition that God does not exist must have probability zero on any body of evidence whatever.

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