SOURCE: "Avicenna's Proof of the Existence of God as a Necessarily Existent Being," in Islamic Philosophical Theology, edited by Parviz Morewedge, State University of New York Press, 1979, pp. 165-87.
In the following essay, Davidson insists that, although Avicenna purports to prove God's existence based on the concept of a necessarily existent being, his ontological argument is rather a kind of cosmological proof
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