The Ontological Argument in S5 Modal Logic

When I teach the ontological argument in class, students, it doesn't go over well. Either you get into the weeds of S5 modal logic and you lose a lot of the class or it just sends them into a spiral. So then there's like this reverseOntological argument where they say, well, hey, look, possibly that maximal being doesn't exist. And there's kind of like the stalemate between like a naturalist or an atheist and a theist.

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