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    It is not the case that No known ontological argument for the existence of God is persuasive.

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    • 1.Plantinga's modal ontological argument is widely acknowledged as logically valid, making 'unpersuasive' a matter of disputed rational acceptability, not logical failure.
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    • 2.The premise that possibly a maximally great being exists strikes many careful philosophers as more credible than its negation, satisfying reasonable standards for a persuasive argument.
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    • 1.Consensus-based dismissal conflates sociological reception with philosophical force, a distinction Frege and Husserl explicitly warned against in rejecting psychologism.
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    • 2.Gödel's ontological argument, formalized in modal logic and scrutinized by logicians like Sobel and Anderson, demonstrates that ontological arguments can achieve rigorous formal persuasiveness even absent broad assent.
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    • 1.There is fairly widespread consensus, even amongst theists, that no known ontological arguments for the existence of God are persuasive.
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    • 2.Most categories of ontological argument have some actual defenders, but none has a large following.
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