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    Metaphysical ultimacy requires necessary existence and as... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Concrete occasions of love deserve to count as divinity because they are triply ultimate.

    Metaphysical ultimacy requires necessary existence and aseity, which contingent occasions of love, being temporally bounded events, cannot possess.

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    • 1.Metaphysical ultimacy requires independence from external causation; temporal events depend on prior causes, so cannot be ultimate.
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    • 2.Necessary existence means existing in all possible worlds; contingent events exist only in some worlds, failing this requirement.
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    • 3.Aseity (self-sufficiency) demands no dependence on anything external; bounded temporal occasions require external temporal conditions.
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    • 1.Ultimacy might not require necessary existence—only that something is foundational within its domain or framework of explanation.
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    • 2.Love's metaphysical significance could derive from participating in eternal or ultimate realities, not from its own temporal boundedness.
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    • 3.Aseity may be incoherent or impossible even for God; dependence on self-constitution or logical laws suggests ultimacy doesn't require it.
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