The concept of a being that exists necessarily is incoherent if necessity is solely a property of propositions or logical relations, not of concrete existents, as Kant argues in the Critique of Pure Reason.
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Necessarily exists / necessary being(as the concept being criticized in the statement)
Something that *must* exist and cannot fail to exist—like arguing that God exists not as a choice or accident, but as an unavoidable requirement of reality itself.
Necessity / Necessary(The statement contrasts necessary things with contingent ones)
Something that must be the way it is and could not be otherwise. It's unavoidable or determined by logic or nature.
logical relations(Davidson's distinction between causal and logical relations)
Relations that obtain between particular descriptions of events, not between the events themselves
proposition(Used in the context of a semantic theory sensitive to differences in subject matter.)
The content expressed by a sentence, individuated at least in part by the subject matter of the sentence and the contents of its subsentential expressions.