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    Essence and existence are really identical and differ onl... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Essence and existence do not enter into real composition with one another, and to the extent that something enjoys essential being, to that same degree it enjoys actual existence.

    Essence and existence are really identical and differ only conceptually.

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    Essence and existence are identical, not distinct.

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    Godfrey briefly refers to this issue in Quodlibet II, q. 2, while attempting to determine whether the essence of a creature is indifferent to existence and nonexistence. He comments that either essence is really identical with existence and differs from it (1) only conceptually or (2) intentionally, or else (3) existence is a distinct thing, i.e., the act of the essence and really distinct from it (PB 2.60). In Quodlibet IV, q. 2, he was asked to determine whether to hold that predicamental thin

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