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    It is not the case that If 'necessary existence' is not a coherent property, the dichotomy between impossibility and necessity collapses, and demonstrating non-impossibility proves nothing about actual existence.

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    • 1.Necessary existence is coherent in standard modal semantics: it simply means truth in all possible worlds, with no special metaphysical baggage required.
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    • 2.The dichotomy between impossibility and necessity stands independently; rejecting one specific necessity claim doesn't collapse the logical framework itself.
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    • 3.Non-impossibility plus additional premises (like causal principles or explanatory closure) can legitimately establish existence without relying solely on modality.
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    • 1.Necessary existence requires a thing to exist in all possible worlds, which violates the principle that existence is a contingent fact requiring external explanation.
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    • 2.Modal logic conflates logical possibility with metaphysical possibility, allowing incoherent concepts like 'self-caused existence' to seem rigorous.
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    • 3.If non-impossibility sufficed for existence, abstract objects, unrealized potentials, and logical constructs would all be actual—a reductio of the inference.
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