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    Kant argued that 'necessary existence' is not a coherent ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→God's absolute necessity does not invoke the ontological argument.

    Kant argued that 'necessary existence' is not a coherent predicate, making any route to absolute necessity conceptually suspect.

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    • 1.Existence is not a real predicate but a logical function; adding 'necessary' to existence doesn't enhance its conceptual content.
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    • 2.All predicates describe qualities of things; necessity describes logical relations, not properties things possess intrinsically.
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    • 3.Confusing necessity in thought with necessity in being leads to the modal fallacy of treating epistemic certainty as metaphysical fact.
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    • 1.Mathematical truths are necessarily existent abstract objects; denying 'necessary existence' makes platonism conceptually incoherent.
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    • 2.Laws of logic and mathematics seem to necessarily exist independent of minds; rejecting necessary existence denies obvious modal facts.
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    • 3.Kant conflates linguistic predication with metaphysical properties; necessity can coherently characterize a thing's mode of being.
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