Description
| Summary: | Necessary Existence' breaks ground on one of the deepest questions anyone ever asks: why is there anything? The classic answer is in terms of a necessary foundation. Yet, why think that is the correct answer? Pruss and Rasmussen present an original defense of the hypothesis that there is a concrete necessary being capable of providing a foundation for the existence of things. They offer six main arguments, divided into six chapters. The first argument is an up-to-date presentation and assessment of a traditional causal-based argument from contingency. The next five arguments are new "possibility-based" arguments that make use of twentieth-century advances in modal logic. The arguments present possible pathways to an intriguing and far-reaching conclusion. The final chapter answers the most challenging objections to the existence of necessary things
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| ISBN: | 9780191063886
0191063886
9780191809118
019180911X |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 12, 2018). |
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