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Author / Creator:	Pruss, Alexander R., author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018. ©2018
Description:	viii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Ontology. Necessity (Philosophy) Concrete (Philosophy) Essentialism (Philosophy) Contingency (Philosophy) Essentialism (Philosophy) God -- Proof, Ontological. Necessity (Philosophy)
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11615996

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Other authors / contributors:	Rasmussen, Joshua L., author.
ISBN:	019874689X 9780198746898
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-215) and index.
Summary:	Necessary Existence' breaks ground on one of the deepest questions anyone ever asks: why is there anything? The classic answer is in terms of a necessary foundation. Yet, why think that is the correct answer? Pruss and Rasmussen present an original defense of the hypothesis that there is a concrete necessary being capable of providing a foundation for the existence of things. They offer six main arguments, divided into six chapters. The first argument is an up-to-date presentation and assessment of a traditional causal-based argument from contingency. The next five arguments are new "possibility-based" arguments that make use of twentieth-century advances in modal logic. The arguments present possible pathways to an intriguing and far-reaching conclusion. The final chapter answers the most challenging objections to the existence of necessary things.

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Call Number:	BD417 .P78 2018
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