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    The essence of God involves necessary existence — Carmelics
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    The essence of God involves necessary existence

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    • 1.By 'God' we understand a necessary being
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    • 2.If God is by definition a necessary being, then necessary existence is contained in the essence of God
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    • 1.Defining a concept to include a property does not entail that anything instantiating that concept exists with that property.
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    • 2.Necessary existence is an existential claim about reality, not a feature that can be analytically derived from a nominal definition.
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    • 3.Kant's critique establishes that existence is not a predicate that can be packed into an essence, making 'necessary existence' a category error.
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    • 1.The conceivability of God's non-existence, argued by Hume and later Sobel, demonstrates that 'God exists necessarily' is not a logical truth.
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    • 2.If 'necessary being' is a coherent concept, its necessity must be grounded in the structure of reality, not stipulated by definition, per Scotus's formal distinction between essence and existence.
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    In several places Leibniz addresses (A) by arguing that by “God” we understand a necessary being, and that from this it follows that the essence of God involves necessary existence. In this way we supposedly avoid altogether the premise that existence is a perfection. (One wonders, however, whether the argument for including “necessary existence” in the idea of God will need to rely on the premise that necessary existence is a perfection.)
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