Alvin Plantinga

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  • Alvin Plantinga was a 20th century American Philosopher
  • Plantinga supports the ontological argument.
  • Plantinga uses a form of modal logic, which uses the idea of possible worlds to assess the validity of certain statements.
  • Alvin Plantinga’s Premises
    1. There is a possible world with a being with maximal greatness (exists in all worlds)
    2. In any possible world this being has maximal excellence.
    3. Our world is a possible world and therefore this being exists in this world. This means God exists.