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Title: Definitions of God and their Logical Consistency
Author(s): MCCARTY, Charles
Journal: Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses
Volume: 99    Issue: 2   Date: 2023   
Pages: 353-367
DOI: 10.2143/ETL.99.2.3291850

Abstract :
The purpose of this article is to verify the possibility of writing in a formal language the so-called 'ontological' proofs of the existence of God of Anselm and Descartes. To this end, the author constructs a class of models in which the definition can be described in a consistent way. Hence he transcribes the idea of degrees of being into a Boolean algebra.

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