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    The properties of omnipotence, omniscience, simplicity, u... — Carmelics
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    The properties of omnipotence, omniscience, simplicity, unity, and goodness may follow from the concept of a necessary being.

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    • 1.A necessary being has implications that bring it into the neighborhood of God as traditionally conceived.
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    • 2.Philosophers such as Rasmussen, O'Connor, and Koons have developed stage-two arguments deriving divine properties from the concept of necessary existence.
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    • 1.Necessary existence, as a modal property, entails only that a being cannot fail to exist, not any particular intrinsic nature or attributes.
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    • 2.Hume argued in Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion that we cannot infer qualitative perfections from bare existential necessity without illicitly importing prior theistic assumptions.
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    • 3.The inference from necessary existence to omnipotence commits a category error: modal status concerns existence conditions, not causal power or epistemic scope.
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    • 1.A necessarily existing abstract object, such as the number 7 or a mathematical truth, satisfies necessary existence without possessing goodness, power, or knowledge.
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    • 2.Kant's critique in the Critique of Pure Reason establishes that existence is not a predicate, making the derivation of further predicates from necessary existence logically suspect.
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    • 3.If multiple candidates satisfy necessary existence, the stage-two derivation of unity fails, since nothing in the concept of necessity precludes a plurality of necessary beings.
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    Finally, even if the cosmological argument is sound or cogent, the difficult task remains to show, as part of natural theology, that the necessary being to which the cosmological argument concludes is the God of religion, and if so, of which religion. Rowe suggests that the cosmological argument has two parts, one to establish the existence of a first cause or necessary being, the other that this necessary being is God (1975: 6). It is unclear, however, whether the second contention is an essent
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