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By following the admirable advice embodied in the above remarks. Alvin Plantinga has produced an original and important study of the ontological argument. Plantinga’s treatment is marked by an intriguing turn — in God and Other Minds [12] he examines a number of variants of the argument and concludes that they arc one and all unsuccessful; but in his more recent The Nature of Necessity [13] and God, Freedom, and Evil [14], Plantinga offers what he takes to be a sound ontological argument. In what follows, I shall survey and evaluate Plantinga on these matters.
None of the attempts to give a general or wholesale refutation of the ontological argument and its variants has succeeded.… There is no substitute, I think, for tackling Anselm’s argument directly and in detail. Alvin Plantinga, God and Other Minds
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Tomberlin, J.E. (1985). Plantinga and the Ontological Argument. In: Tomberlin, J.E., van Inwagen, P. (eds) Alvin Plantinga. Profiles, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5223-2_8
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