Abstract :
Most analytic philosophers hold that if God exists, He exists withbroad logical necessity. Richard Swinburne denies the distinction betweennarrow and broad logical necessity, and argues that if God exists, His existenceis narrow-logically contingent. A defender of divine broad logical necessity couldgrant the latter claim. I argue, however, that not only is God’s existencebroad-logically necessary, but on a certain understanding of God’s relation tomodality, it comes out narrow-logically necessary. This piece argues againstSwinburne’s overall account of modality and rebuts his argument for narrow-logicalcontingency
