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" God and necessity / "
Brian Leftow.
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BL
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891654
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| Main Entry
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Leftow, Brian,1956-
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God and necessity /\ Brian Leftow.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford :: Oxford University Press,, 2015.
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, ©2015
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ix, 575 pages ;; 24 cm
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019873896X
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: 9780198738961
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| Notes
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Originally published: 2012.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 552-568) and index.
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| Contents
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Modal basics -- Some solutions -- Theist solutions -- The ontology of possibility -- Modal truthmakers -- Modality and the divine nature -- Deity as essential -- Against deity theories -- The role of deity -- The Biggest Bang -- Divine concepts -- Concepts, syntax, and actualism -- Modality: basic notions -- The genesis of secular modality -- Modal reality -- Essences -- Non-secular modalities -- Theism and modal semantics -- Freedom, preference, and cost -- Explaining modal status -- Explaining the necessary -- Against theistic Platonism -- Worlds and the existence of God.
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God-- Proof, Ontological.
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Necessity (Philosophy)
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Possibility.
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God-- Proof, Ontological.
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Necessity (Philosophy)
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Possibility.
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212.1
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BT103.L44 2015
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