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    It is not the case that There is no clearly articulated full set of premises for a 'Hegelian' ontological argument.

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    • 1.Hegel's Logic explicitly reconstructs the concept of Being as self-determining, culminating in the Absolute Idea that necessarily exists as concrete totality.
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    • 2.Robert Stern and William Desmond have articulated formal reconstructions of Hegel's argument that God's concept entails actuality through dialectical self-negation.
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    • 3.The absence of a single canonical formulation reflects Hegel's method, not the absence of a reconstructible argument with identifiable premises.
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    • 1.Quentin Lauer and Charles Taylor reconstruct from the Science of Logic a valid inference: the Absolute cannot be merely possible without contradiction, since possibility itself presupposes actuality.
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    • 2.A philosophical argument need not be explicitly listed as numbered premises to constitute a clearly articulable ontological argument recoverable from the text.
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    • 1.No example is provided of a 'Hegelian' ontological argument.
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    • 2.There is no extant discussion that states clearly the full set of premises of a 'Hegelian' ontological argument.
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