Necessary Existence

Defining 'concrete' to mean. 'capable of causation the authors present a plethora of arguments for the existence of a necessary concrete thing. While (as the

(2018) Necessary Existence Oxford: Oxford University. Press, ₤45.00, ISBN 978-0-19-874689-9. This book discusses arguments for and against the claim that

30 Sept 2025 But a necessarily existent being is not just durable across time, but across worlds. It must exist! And this thought that necessary existence

Recent discussions of modal variants of the ontological argument for the existence of God1 have tended to come to the following con- clusion

30 Sept 2025 The relevant great-making properties here are aesthetic in nature, not ontological. So in what sense is necessary existence supposed to be a

Then, over the course of six chapters, we will present six arguments for the existence of a necessary being. The first argument is an up-to-date defense of a

One thing cannot exist simultaneously as necessary through itself and necessary through another. For if the other is removed or its existence not considered, it

Necessary. Existence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 240 pp. ₤45.00 (hbk Graham Oppy. Monash University

From Necessary Truth to Necessary Existence. Abstract. I introduce new details in an argument for necessarily existing propositions. The crux of the argument

Necessary Being, that is, a Being whose existence is its nature. 479 18 “The effect in itself is possible of existence and, through the First, is necessary

I have found a. Deity; and here I stop my enquiry 2 often sums it up. The Supposedly Necessary Existence of Whatever God Wishes to Exist. It may be wrong to

existence and true-nature of the necessary existence in itself” (2 This, De Haan writes, conjures the “problematic” of how and why Avicenna proceeded from

Kant's claim is that ontological arguments presuppose a false metaphysical view about the source or ground of necessary existence. Thus, it might be more

If God exists he will have necessary existence, but it is not a contradiction to say that such a concept does not have an actuality. Replies to Kant's criticism

Necessary Existence and the Doctrine of Being in Avicenna's “Metaphysics of the. Healing By DANIEL D. DE HAAN. Leiden: Brill, 2020. Pp. xv + 426. $181.00 (

has necessary existence if and only if it exists in every possible world, if and only if its failing to exist is impossible. Clearly most of us do not enjoy

Why Contingent Beings Require a Cause, and Necessary Beings Do Not: Avicenna adds that possible (i.e contingent) beings require a cause for their existence

C What kind of cause or agency is necessary for the universe to come into being? C How can the features (i.e. regularity and purpose) of the universe be

The last two arguments, furthermore, are for the singularity and simplicity of the necessary being whose existence has been defended in the first four arguments

itself necessary-existence. This definition is either false and signifies nothing, in which case Spinoza's whole doctrine built on it collapses; or if it is