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    There is an absolute explanation for the pluriverse. — Carmelics
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    There is an absolute explanation for the pluriverse.

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    • 1.Possible worlds are composite concrete objects that necessarily coexist.
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    • 2.The pluriverse exists as the collection of all possible worlds.
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    • 3.Everything that exists has an absolute explanation for its existence (Strong PSR).
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    • 1.Van Inwagen's consequence argument establishes that if the pluriverse necessarily exists, its existence is brute and admits of no further explanation.
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    • 2.A necessary truth explains nothing beyond itself—modal necessity is a logical property, not a causal or metaphysical ground of sufficient reason.
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    • 3.Therefore, grounding absolute explanation in the necessary co-existence of possible worlds conflates logical necessity with explanatory sufficiency.
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    • 1.The Strong PSR is self-undermining: any explanation of the pluriverse would itself require explanation, generating a vicious infinite regress.
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    • 2.Necessary beings cannot serve as explanatory terminators unless their necessity is itself explained, which reintroduces the original explanatory demand.
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    SEP: cosmological-argument
    Almeida 2018
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    However, if we understand “necessary being” in this sense, we can dispose of the cosmological argument as irrelevant; what is needed rather is an argument to establish that God’s existence understood as logically necessary is possible, for if it is possible that it is necessary that God exists, then necessarily God exists (by Axiom S5). However, this need not be the sense in which “necessary being” is understood in the cosmological argument. A more adequate notion of necessary being is that the necessity is metaphysical or factual (Hick 1960). A necessary being is one that if it exists, it ne...
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    Validity: The argument is explicitly reconstructed in the source passage as steps (1), (2), (3), and (4), where from the necessary coexistence of possible worlds composing the pluriverse and the Strong PSR, it follows that there is an absolute explanation for the pluriverse.

    Confidence: Reconstructed argument from Almeida's cosmological argument.

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