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13.1 Impossible 13.1 Impossible
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13.2 The Prior option 13.2 The Prior option
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13.3 What makes possible is in Absent 13.3 What makes possible is in Absent
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13.4 Necessary aseity 13.4 Necessary aseity
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13.5 The compatibility claim 13.5 The compatibility claim
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13.6 Stronger aseity 13.6 Stronger aseity
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13.7 Combinatorialism 13.7 Combinatorialism
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13.8 Conventionalism 13.8 Conventionalism
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13.8.1 The fictional kind argument 13.8.1 The fictional kind argument
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13.9 The modal trilemma 13.9 The modal trilemma
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13.9.1 The perfect being, alone and possible 13.9.1 The perfect being, alone and possible
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13.9.2 Others’ conventions in an existent future 13.9.2 Others’ conventions in an existent future
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13.9.3 The rest of the options 13.9.3 The rest of the options
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13.9.3.1 The “all” option 13.9.3.1 The “all” option
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13.9.3.2 The other options 13.9.3.2 The other options
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13.10 The perfect being, alone and not possible 13.10 The perfect being, alone and not possible
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13.11 The perfect being, never alone 13.11 The perfect being, never alone
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13.12 Modal fictionalism 13.12 Modal fictionalism
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13.13 Cheap truthmaking 13.13 Cheap truthmaking
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13.14 Lower degrees 13.14 Lower degrees
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13.15 Concrete non-existents: possibilism 13.15 Concrete non-existents: possibilism
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Abstract
Chapter 13 begins a four-chapter argument against the claim that a perfect being would exist contingently. Were that true, there would be a possible world with no perfect being. The chapter argues that in at least some such worlds, a perfect being would be possible. It then begins the longer argument, which is that there is no acceptable ontological account of what would make it possible in such a world. This chapter considers ways to use concreta in that world to provide a perfect being’s possibility—conventionalism, conceptualism, “powers” theories, and other strategies. It contends that these all “cost” too much. It also argues that a perfect being would have aseity as an essential property. It points out various ways to understand that attribute, and shows how they rule out ways to account for a perfect being’s possibility.
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