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Possible is not necessarily possible.

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Possible is not necessarily possible.
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RE: Possible is not necessarily possible.
August 22, 2013 at 9:37 am
It sounds like the Ontological argument (spec. Plantinga's). If I remember correctly, in the framework that Plantinga's argument uses (axiom S5), to say that something is "possibly necessarily true" is equivalent to saying that it is "actually necessarily true".

Doesn't that make his argument question-begging? Thinking
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Possible is not necessarily possible. - by MysticKnight - August 21, 2013 at 9:26 am
RE: Possible is not necessarily possible. - by KichigaiNeko - August 21, 2013 at 10:13 am
RE: Possible is not necessarily possible. - by Whateverist - August 21, 2013 at 1:20 pm
RE: Possible is not necessarily possible. - by Walking Void - August 21, 2013 at 11:31 am
RE: Possible is not necessarily possible. - by genkaus - August 21, 2013 at 1:48 pm
RE: Possible is not necessarily possible. - by gall - August 21, 2013 at 3:03 pm
RE: Possible is not necessarily possible. - by MindForgedManacle - August 22, 2013 at 9:37 am

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