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    Necessary existence may be an incoherent or meaningless p... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The cause of the aggregate of all contingent things must be a necessarily existing thing.

    Necessary existence may be an incoherent or meaningless predicate when applied to concrete beings, as Kant argued in the Critique of Pure Reason against the ontological proof.

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