Kant's critique establishes that 'necessary existence' is not a coherent ontological category applicable to any being, since necessity is a logical property of propositions, not of things.
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category(Aristotelian usage as discussed in the passage)
A predicate, per Aristotle's usage; the term 'predicate' can refer to realities, concepts, or linguistic terms.
coherent(de Finetti's usage in the context of the Dutch Book argument for probabilism)
A subject is coherent if their unconditional degrees of belief do not permit a Dutch Book (a guaranteed loss through a combination of bets) to be made against them
logical property(in philosophy of logic)
A characteristic or feature that belongs to logical statements or concepts themselves, independent of how we happen to model or interpret them.
proposition(Used in the context of a semantic theory sensitive to differences in subject matter.)
The content expressed by a sentence, individuated at least in part by the subject matter of the sentence and the contents of its subsentential expressions.