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    The apparent contradiction between God being esse and God... — Carmelics
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    Supports→The claims that God is esse and God is id quod est are not genuinely contradictory.

    The apparent contradiction between God being esse and God being id quod est arises because of a deficiency in our mode of speaking.

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    First, if a (conjunctive) proposition’s seeming, after careful and repeated scrutiny, to be or entail an explicit logical contradiction is not sufficient, or at least good enough, evidence of its being a contradiction, what would be? To put it another way, one’s inability to explain how it could be true both that p and that q does seem to be pretty good (non-demonstrative) evidence that p and q are not both true. Now it was noted above that the actual is possible whether or not one can explain how it is possible. Granted, but if one cannot explain the ‘how,’ doubt is cast on the actuality. Th...

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