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    God cannot be the subject of metaphysics. — Carmelics
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    God cannot be the subject of metaphysics.

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    • 1.The existence of the subject of a science must be demonstrated beforehand.
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    • 2.God's existence is to be demonstrated within the science of metaphysics.
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    God's existence is to be demonstrated within the science of metaphysics.The existence of the subject of a science must be demonstrated beforehand.

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    Another main source is the Persian thinker Ibn Sina (Lat. Avicenna), who discusses the concepts of ‘being’, ‘thing’, and ‘the one’ as the primary conceptions of the intellect in his Metaphysics I.5. He introduces the idea of primary conceptions by drawing a seminal analogy between first principles in the order of judgment and in the order of conception: just as there are first principles in the order of judgment, at which the reduction or analysis of propositional knowledge comes to an end (e.g.
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