Peirce's Cosmological Argumentation: God as Ens necessarium.
Charles Peirce begins his best-known text about religious metaphysics by defining the proper name "God" as Ens necessarium. In two previously unpublished manuscripts, he advocates the hypothesis of such a "necessary being" as the only "rational explanation" that is "adequate to account for the sum t...
| Published in: | Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society Vol. 61; no. 2; pp. 45 - 68 |
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Spring2025
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