(August 31, 2016 at 9:02 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: A necessary being exists in all possible worlds. If there is a possible world in which the proposed necessary being does not exist, it is not necessary; and the supposed necessary being does not exist in any possible world...necessarily.
You need to pick one or the other. If you say it is not necessary, then it can exist in some possible worlds. If you say it can't exist in any possible worlds, that's because it's still defined as necessary.
I use the latter move, myself, but I confess that I'm not entirely comfortable with it. It leaves us with something simultaneously necessary and impossible.
