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    Necessary truths are propositions that are true in all po... — Carmelics
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    Necessary truths are propositions that are true in all possible worlds.

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    • 1.Necessary truths are not dependent upon the first free decree of God.
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    • 2.Necessary truths are revealed by analysis to be identities (i.e., they hold without contradiction in any possible world).
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    • 3.A proposition true in all possible worlds cannot be made false by any actualization decision.
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    The crucial idea here is that a proposition is contingently true in this world when it is somehow dependent upon the first free decree of God, that is, when the reason for the truth of the proposition is to be located in the actualization of this particular world. There is another world, W*, existing in the infinite library of world-books, which is such that if God had brought that world, W*, into existence P would be false. In other words, a proposition is contingently true when it is true in t
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