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Christoph Benzmüller
The authors present a simplified Gödel-style ontological argument that replaces essence and necessary-existence machinery with three rules for positive properties. Isabelle/HOL verifies that the axioms entail a God-like being’s necessary existence in K, while a model-finder countermodel shows they do not entail modal collapse. K does not prove possible existence; adding T does. The result depends on the formalized axioms.
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