
Published online:
21 April 2022
Published in print:
31 March 2022
Online ISBN:
9780191919213
Print ISBN:
9780192896926
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15.1 Explanatory priority and Platonic worlds 15.1 Explanatory priority and Platonic worlds
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15.2 An analogy 15.2 An analogy
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15.3 Consider the cases 15.3 Consider the cases
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15.4 The attributes dictate 15.4 The attributes dictate
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15.5 Further cases 15.5 Further cases
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15.6 The most basic level of reality 15.6 The most basic level of reality
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15.7 Williamson 15.7 Williamson
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Cite
Leftow, Brian, 'Other Non-Concreta', Anselm's Argument: Divine Necessity (Oxford , 2022; online edn, Oxford Academic, 21 Apr. 2022), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192896926.003.0016, accessed 8 May 2025.
Abstract
Chapter 15 considers whether Platonic possible worlds or Williamson’s framework of necessary but contingently concrete objects provide acceptable accounts of a perfect being’s possible existence in worlds in which it does not exist. It argues that if there are Platonic worlds, they are explanatorily prior to any contingent perfect being, and take over a role it should have, as the most basic level of reality. It suggests briefly that Williamson’s overall framework is implausible. It further shows that for Williamson, a contingently concrete being must be contingently perfect. The author has argued elsewhere that a perfect being must be necessarily perfect.
Keywords:
abstract, Platonic, possible world, Williamson, explanatory priority, contingent perfection
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Anselm’s Argument: Divine Necessity. Brian Leftow, Oxford University Press. © Brian Leftow 2022.DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192896926.003.0016
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