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    Modal properties like 'necessary existence' cannot be coh... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→There is a necessarily existent, necessarily omnipotent, necessarily omniscient, and necessarily perfectly good being (namely, God).

    Modal properties like 'necessary existence' cannot be coherently predicated of individuals without first establishing that individual's existence in the actual world.

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    • 1.Predicating properties requires a subject; non-existent entities lack the ontological status needed to bear any properties, modal or otherwise.
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    • 2.Modal claims about possible worlds presuppose we can identify which entity across worlds we're discussing—impossible without actual-world anchor.
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    • 3.Confusing modal properties with existence conflates logical possibility with metaphysical grounding, risking incoherent God-like concepts.
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    • 1.Abstract objects and mathematical entities are legitimately discussed modally without prior actual-world instantiation—existence isn't required for predication.
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    • 2.Necessary existence itself is a modal property whose coherence requires assessing individuals precisely *before* assuming actual existence.
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    • 3.Identity conditions across possible worlds can be established logically without actual instantiation, making modal predication of non-existent individuals coherent.
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