If God were strictly identical to his nature, there could be no meaningful distinction between God's existence and his essence, collapsing into the Anselmian ontological argument's most contested premise.
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distinction(One of the two components of Arendtian plurality)
The aspect of plurality by which no two human beings are ever interchangeable, each being endowed with a unique biography and perspective on the world
essence(Medieval realist metaphysics)
The defining nature of a species, held by some to be distinct from and capable of surviving the destruction of all individual members of that species
existence(Kant's analysis in the Critique of Pure Reason as applied to the ontological argument)
Not a real predicate or positive determination; it does not add to or enlarge the concept of a subject.
nature(Schelling's philosophy of nature)
Everything that appears to be independent of us, reinterpreted by Schelling in terms of the I-constituting activities rather than as a domain genuinely external to mind.
ontological argument(Described as an early and now-canonical formulation found in Anselm's Proslogion.)
An argument that seeks to demonstrate God's existence from the concept or definition of God alone, without appeal to empirical evidence.