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thing to exist? Why does any contingent thing exist? For some time now, the preferred style in addressing such questions has been deflationary when it has not been
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Falling in love with wisdom: American philosophers talk about their calling
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325:"The Problem of Being in the Early Heidegger", WF Vallicella,
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414:"Has the Ontological Argument Been Refuted?", WF Vallicella,
353:"Relativism, Truth, and the Symmetry Thesis", WF Vallicella,
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The philosophy of
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501:"God, causation and occasionalism", WF Vallicella,
406:"Divine Simplicity: A New Defense", W Vallicella,
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