### Abstract

Computers may help us to understand --not just verify-- philosophical arguments. By utilizing modern proof assistants in an iterative interpretive process, we can reconstruct and assess an argument by fully formal means. Through the mechanization of a variant of St. Anselm's ontological argument by E. J. Lowe, which is a paradigmatic example of a natural-language argument with strong ties to metaphysics and religion, we offer an ideal showcase for our computer-assisted interpretive method.

### License

BSD License

### Topics

- Logic/Philosophical aspects

### Session Lowe_Ontological_Argument

- Relations
- QML
- LoweOntologicalArgument_1
- LoweOntologicalArgument_2
- LoweOntologicalArgument_3
- LoweOntologicalArgument_4
- LoweOntologicalArgument_5
- LoweOntologicalArgument_6
- LoweOntologicalArgument_7

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Lowe_Ontological_Argument-AFP

    @article{Lowe_Ontological_Argument-AFP,
      author  = {David Fuenmayor and Christoph Benzmüller},
      title   = {Computer-assisted Reconstruction and Assessment of E. J. Lowe's Modal Ontological Argument},
      journal = {Archive of Formal Proofs},
      month   = {September},
      year    = {2017},
      note    = {\url{https://isa-afp.org/entries/Lowe_Ontological_Argument.html},
                 Formal proof development},
      ISSN    = {2150-914x},
    }

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