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    Supports→Collingwood's defense of the ontological argument in An Essay on Philosophical Method appears to be at odds with his later claim that metaphysics is a logical, not an ontological, inquiry.

    The ontological proof is normally regarded as the pinnacle of metaphysical knowledge, combining a priori necessity with existential import.

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    The question concerning the relation between Collingwood’s two metaphilosophical treatises and whether the conception of the role of philosophical analysis articulated in An Essay on Metaphysics is continuous with that described in An Essay on Philosophical Method is further complicated by the fact that An Essay on Philosophical Method contains a defence of the ontological argument that appears to be at odds with Collingwood’s later claim that metaphysics is a logical, not an ontological inquiry

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