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    Challenges→The properties of omnipotence, omniscience, simplicity, unity, and goodness may follow from the concept of a necessary being.

    Necessary existence, as a modal property, entails only that a being cannot fail to exist, not any particular intrinsic nature or attributes.

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    • 1.Modality concerns what *could* or *must* be true, not what intrinsic qualities a thing possesses. These are logically distinct categories.
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    • 2.A being could be necessarily existent yet lack omnipotence, omniscience, or other specific attributes—necessity says 'cannot fail to exist.'
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    • 3.Conflating modal properties with intrinsic nature leads to unfounded assumptions about what necessary existence entails metaphysically.
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    • 1.If a being necessarily exists, its intrinsic nature must also be necessary—else what grounds its necessary existence becomes contingent.
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    • 2.A necessarily existent being cannot have merely contingent properties; some attributes (like being infinite) seem entailed by necessity itself.
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    • 3.Separating modal status from intrinsic nature suggests necessary existence is metaphysically 'thin'—but this may empty the concept of meaning.
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