Robert Maydole's ontological argument

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Modal Perfection Argument developed by Robert Maydole's establishes that Maximal Greatness is a possible property. It goes like this:

  1. If a property is a 'great-making property,' its negation is a 'lesser-making property'.
  2. 'Great-making properties' do not entail 'lesser-making properties'. (Makes sense because how could a 'great-making property' be a 'great-making property' if it required flaws and entailed 'lesser-making properties').
  3. Maximal Greatness is the greatest 'great-making property', therefore Maximal Greatness cannot entail its negation of non-Maximal Greatness. (In modal logic, a property that is impossible will entail its opposite). (Example: square circularity; since square circularity is an impossible property then all things must negate square circularity, meaning everything entails non-square circularity including all impossible properties, therefore square circularity entails non-square circularity). If we conclude that Maximal Greatness is an impossible property then all things must negate Maximal Greatness, therefore all things entail non-maximal greatness including all impossible properties such as Maximal Greatness, but looking back at the first premise we see that Maximal Greatness cannot entail its opposite because 'great-making properties', such as Maximal Greatness, cannot be 'great-making properties' and entail flaws from 'lesser-making properties'. Plus Maximal Greatness is perfection and if perfection is logically absurd then we cannot adequately define things such as: evil, hate, ignorance, etc. as imperfections. Therefore if Maximal Greatness is a possible property then in some possible world there's a being with Maximal Greatness.