God and Other Necessary Beings
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/god-necessary-being/
Entities of the first sort are contingent beings; entities of the second sort are necessary beings.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/god-necessary-being/
Entities of the first sort are contingent beings; entities of the second sort are necessary beings.
What is the difference between a contingent existence ... - Quora
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-a-contingent-existence-and-a-necessary-existence-in-philosophy
Necessary existence is a label for something that must exist in all circumstances and contingent existence is a label for something that exists in dependence on ...
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-a-contingent-existence-and-a-necessary-existence-in-philosophy
Necessary existence is a label for something that must exist in all circumstances and contingent existence is a label for something that exists in dependence on ...
Contingent Beings | Necessary Beings - Oxford Academic
https://academic.oup.com/book/6953/chapter/151231725
A proposition saying what it is to be a certain thing tells us what it is for that thing to exist, but for that very reason, it should not be understood as ...
https://academic.oup.com/book/6953/chapter/151231725
A proposition saying what it is to be a certain thing tells us what it is for that thing to exist, but for that very reason, it should not be understood as ...
Part III. Thomas Aquinas, "The Argument from Necessity"
https://philosophy.lander.edu/intro/necessity.shtml
Therefore, a Necessary Being (i.e., a Being of which it is impossible that it should not exist) exists. The concepts of necessary and contingent ...
https://philosophy.lander.edu/intro/necessity.shtml
Therefore, a Necessary Being (i.e., a Being of which it is impossible that it should not exist) exists. The concepts of necessary and contingent ...
The Cosmological Argument
https://www.qcc.cuny.edu/socialsciences/ppecorino/intro_text/Chapter%203%20Religion/Cosmological.htm
The “Argument from Contingency” examines how every being must be either necessary or contingent. Since not every being can be contingent, it follow that there ...
https://www.qcc.cuny.edu/socialsciences/ppecorino/intro_text/Chapter%203%20Religion/Cosmological.htm
The “Argument from Contingency” examines how every being must be either necessary or contingent. Since not every being can be contingent, it follow that there ...
Necessary Being | Scottish Journal of Theology
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/scottish-journal-of-theology/article/necessary-being/828B48FABE8B24A8567A8D2BF450D80B
The notion of necessary being, applied to God and withheld from man, indicates that God and man differ not merely in the characteristics which they possess but ...
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/scottish-journal-of-theology/article/necessary-being/828B48FABE8B24A8567A8D2BF450D80B
The notion of necessary being, applied to God and withheld from man, indicates that God and man differ not merely in the characteristics which they possess but ...
Proof of the Contingent and The Necessary - Al-Islam.org
https://www.al-islam.org/al-tawhid/vol1-n3/three-topics-theological-philosophy-ahmad-ahmadi/proof-contingent-and-necessary
For, on the basis of the principle of causality nothing can come into existence without a cause, and that for every phenomenon or event there has to be a cause.
https://www.al-islam.org/al-tawhid/vol1-n3/three-topics-theological-philosophy-ahmad-ahmadi/proof-contingent-and-necessary
For, on the basis of the principle of causality nothing can come into existence without a cause, and that for every phenomenon or event there has to be a cause.
A Necessary Being - annie crawford
http://anniecrawford.net/2019/10/08/a-necessary-being/
A Necessary Being · Either God exists or God does not exist. · We observe that everything in the physical world is contingent; it is possible for ...
http://anniecrawford.net/2019/10/08/a-necessary-being/
A Necessary Being · Either God exists or God does not exist. · We observe that everything in the physical world is contingent; it is possible for ...
Necessary but Dependent Beings? - The Good Book Blog
https://www.biola.edu/blogs/good-book-blog/2016/necessary-but-dependent-beings
But ab alio necessary beings are both necessary and dependent for their existence on a external cause, hence providing a third category of ...
https://www.biola.edu/blogs/good-book-blog/2016/necessary-but-dependent-beings
But ab alio necessary beings are both necessary and dependent for their existence on a external cause, hence providing a third category of ...
Necessary Being - rintintin.colorado.edu
https://rintintin.colorado.edu/~vancecd/phil3600/PVI1.pdf
Beings that are not necessary are called contingent. ... posed to those things that are possible and impossible in relation to other things.
https://rintintin.colorado.edu/~vancecd/phil3600/PVI1.pdf
Beings that are not necessary are called contingent. ... posed to those things that are possible and impossible in relation to other things.
necessary v. contingent existence - Reasonable Faith
https://www.reasonablefaith.org/question-answer/P40/tag/necessary+v.+contingent+existence
God, Time, and Change · Questions from a Sceptical Seeker · Could the Universe, not God, Be the Necessary Being? · Does God Have both Necessary and Contingent ...
https://www.reasonablefaith.org/question-answer/P40/tag/necessary+v.+contingent+existence
God, Time, and Change · Questions from a Sceptical Seeker · Could the Universe, not God, Be the Necessary Being? · Does God Have both Necessary and Contingent ...
From a Necessary Being to a Perfect Being
https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/126596/3/From%20a%20Necessary%20Being%20to%20a%20Perfect%20Being%252C%20Revised.pdf
For illustrative purposes, consider the following first-stage Leibnizian cosmological argument: (1) Every contingent existential fact has an explanation. (2) ...
https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/126596/3/From%20a%20Necessary%20Being%20to%20a%20Perfect%20Being%252C%20Revised.pdf
For illustrative purposes, consider the following first-stage Leibnizian cosmological argument: (1) Every contingent existential fact has an explanation. (2) ...
From states of affairs to a necessary being | Appeared-to-Blogly
https://appearedtoblogly.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/rasmussen-joshua-22from-states-of-affairs-to-a-necessary-being22.pdf
One path begins with the following causal principle: necessarily, any contingent concrete object possibly has a cause. I mark out steps from that principle to a ...
https://appearedtoblogly.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/rasmussen-joshua-22from-states-of-affairs-to-a-necessary-being22.pdf
One path begins with the following causal principle: necessarily, any contingent concrete object possibly has a cause. I mark out steps from that principle to a ...
Full article: A New Argument for a Necessary Being
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00048402.2010.523706
Premise (4) states that there can be a contingent concrete particular that has a cause. Take me, for example: I am a contingent concrete particular and my ...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00048402.2010.523706
Premise (4) states that there can be a contingent concrete particular that has a cause. Take me, for example: I am a contingent concrete particular and my ...
St. Thomas' Doctrine of Necessary Being | SpringerLink
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-15356-5_7
For a really satisfying explanation of why anything contingent (such as you or me or this table) exists you must eventually begin with something which is not ...
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-15356-5_7
For a really satisfying explanation of why anything contingent (such as you or me or this table) exists you must eventually begin with something which is not ...
1.3 Arguments for the existence of God - Hodder Education
https://www.hoddereducation.co.uk/media/Documents/RS/1-3_Arguments_for_the_existence_of_God_The_cosmological_argument.pdf
C2: So there must be an 'uncaused' necessary being who sustains all caused necessary beings and all contingent beings. C3: This is God. The difference between a ...
https://www.hoddereducation.co.uk/media/Documents/RS/1-3_Arguments_for_the_existence_of_God_The_cosmological_argument.pdf
C2: So there must be an 'uncaused' necessary being who sustains all caused necessary beings and all contingent beings. C3: This is God. The difference between a ...
20th WCP: Aquinas' Third Way Modalized
https://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Reli/ReliMayd.htm
Although the Third Way is not sound, it can be soundly transformed into an argument which does prove that a temporally necessary being exists, the Modal Third ...
https://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Reli/ReliMayd.htm
Although the Third Way is not sound, it can be soundly transformed into an argument which does prove that a temporally necessary being exists, the Modal Third ...
Necessary being - Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/necessary-being/v-1
Others trace God's necessity to his relation to creatures (Ibn Sina, Anselm). Spinoza and Leibniz held that what makes God necessary explains his very ...
https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/necessary-being/v-1
Others trace God's necessity to his relation to creatures (Ibn Sina, Anselm). Spinoza and Leibniz held that what makes God necessary explains his very ...
Philosophy of Religion 1: Cosmological Argument ... - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lx7Wf4f-vw
teachphilosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lx7Wf4f-vw
teachphilosophy
Plantinga: Why God is a necessary being
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2012/03/02/plantinga-why-god-is-a-necessary-being/
How does he show this? It's simply a tricked-up version of the Cosmological Argument: everything that exists is contingent—that is, dependent on ...
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2012/03/02/plantinga-why-god-is-a-necessary-being/
How does he show this? It's simply a tricked-up version of the Cosmological Argument: everything that exists is contingent—that is, dependent on ...
RECONSIDERING THE NECESSARY BEINGS OF ...
https://philarchive.org/archive/ROBRTN-5
uncaused, necessary being in order to account for: (1) the existence of possible (we may say “contingent”) beings that are readily observable.
https://philarchive.org/archive/ROBRTN-5
uncaused, necessary being in order to account for: (1) the existence of possible (we may say “contingent”) beings that are readily observable.
Why can there only be one necessary being, as opposed to ...
https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/43087/why-can-there-only-be-one-necessary-being-as-opposed-to-two-or-thirty-seven
I also read that Avicenna (I think) said that a necessary being is pure existence, meaning that existence is the only thing there is to its ...
https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/43087/why-can-there-only-be-one-necessary-being-as-opposed-to-two-or-thirty-seven
I also read that Avicenna (I think) said that a necessary being is pure existence, meaning that existence is the only thing there is to its ...
is the universe contingent or necessary? : r/askphilosophy
https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/vu6pgc/is_the_universe_contingent_or_necessary/
If something can be imagined to be otherwise, then it is a contingent being. · The existence of contingent beings implies the existence of (at ...
https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/vu6pgc/is_the_universe_contingent_or_necessary/
If something can be imagined to be otherwise, then it is a contingent being. · The existence of contingent beings implies the existence of (at ...
Cosmological Argument - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
https://stanford.library.sydney.edu.au/archives/sum2010/entries/cosmological-argument/
A contingent being (a being that if it exists can not-exist) exists. This contingent being has a cause of or explanation for its existence. The ...
https://stanford.library.sydney.edu.au/archives/sum2010/entries/cosmological-argument/
A contingent being (a being that if it exists can not-exist) exists. This contingent being has a cause of or explanation for its existence. The ...
Cosmological argument - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_argument
A cosmological argument, in natural theology, is an argument which claims that the existence of God can be inferred from facts concerning causation, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_argument
A cosmological argument, in natural theology, is an argument which claims that the existence of God can be inferred from facts concerning causation, ...
The Cosmological Argument from Plato to Leibniz - LSE
http://personal.lse.ac.uk/ROBERT49/teaching/ph103/pdf/Craig_IbnSinaCosmologicalArgument.pdf
in actual relation to that other being it is necessary, and, the relation to ... the state of being-for in the case of a thing whose being is contingent.
http://personal.lse.ac.uk/ROBERT49/teaching/ph103/pdf/Craig_IbnSinaCosmologicalArgument.pdf
in actual relation to that other being it is necessary, and, the relation to ... the state of being-for in the case of a thing whose being is contingent.
Anselm: Ontological Argument for the God's Existence
https://iep.utm.edu/anselm-ontological-argument/
For example, if x necessarily exists, then its existence does not depend on the existence of any being (unlike contingent human beings whose existence depends, ...
https://iep.utm.edu/anselm-ontological-argument/
For example, if x necessarily exists, then its existence does not depend on the existence of any being (unlike contingent human beings whose existence depends, ...
Contingency argument for God's existence - Thinking to Believe
https://thinkingtobelieve.com/2013/04/23/contingency-argument-for-gods-existence/
We can conceive of two different kinds of things: those whose existence requires a cause external to themselves (contingent beings), and those ...
https://thinkingtobelieve.com/2013/04/23/contingency-argument-for-gods-existence/
We can conceive of two different kinds of things: those whose existence requires a cause external to themselves (contingent beings), and those ...
Arguments for God's Existence - Phil 2301 Intro to Philosophy
https://www.dbu.edu/naugle/courses/_documents/phil-2301/handouts/philosophy-of-religion/existence-of-god.pdf
contingent being must include a noncontingent, necessary being. • Therefore, a necessary being (God) exists. ... human eye, male/female relation, DNA, etc.
https://www.dbu.edu/naugle/courses/_documents/phil-2301/handouts/philosophy-of-religion/existence-of-god.pdf
contingent being must include a noncontingent, necessary being. • Therefore, a necessary being (God) exists. ... human eye, male/female relation, DNA, etc.
Cosmological Arguments for the Existence of God
https://1000wordphilosophy.com/2021/11/14/cosmological-arguments/
In contrast, a necessary being exists and could not possibly not have existed. The same terms describe truths or facts: A contingent fact is ...
https://1000wordphilosophy.com/2021/11/14/cosmological-arguments/
In contrast, a necessary being exists and could not possibly not have existed. The same terms describe truths or facts: A contingent fact is ...
Creation and Contingency - Oxford Research Encyclopedias
https://oxfordre.com/religion/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.001.0001/acrefore-9780199340378-e-35?mediaType=Article
It simply states that an unconditioned necessary being exists, but cannot account for its existence other than by stating it as an indispensable ...
https://oxfordre.com/religion/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.001.0001/acrefore-9780199340378-e-35?mediaType=Article
It simply states that an unconditioned necessary being exists, but cannot account for its existence other than by stating it as an indispensable ...
Philosophy 110 Test 2 Flashcards | Quizlet
https://quizlet.com/119998631/philosophy-110-test-2-flash-cards/
The opposite of a contingent being is a necessary being. ... Kierkegaard's view on the relationship between faith and reason is that.
https://quizlet.com/119998631/philosophy-110-test-2-flash-cards/
The opposite of a contingent being is a necessary being. ... Kierkegaard's view on the relationship between faith and reason is that.
A New Cosmological Argument - Alexander Pruss
http://alexanderpruss.com/papers/NewCosmo.html
A contingent proposition (or being) is one that possibly, in the broadly conceptual or logical sense, is true (or existent) and possibly is false (or ...
http://alexanderpruss.com/papers/NewCosmo.html
A contingent proposition (or being) is one that possibly, in the broadly conceptual or logical sense, is true (or existent) and possibly is false (or ...
The Contingency Argument | Introduction to Philosophy
https://philosophyintrocourse.com/the-course/part-2-does-god-exist-philosophy-of-religion/the-contingency-argument/
A contingent being (a being that if it exists can not-exist) exists. This contingent being has a cause of or explanation for its existence.
https://philosophyintrocourse.com/the-course/part-2-does-god-exist-philosophy-of-religion/the-contingency-argument/
A contingent being (a being that if it exists can not-exist) exists. This contingent being has a cause of or explanation for its existence.
DIVINE NECESSITY AND CREATED CONTINGENCE IN ...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1468-2265.2009.00476.x
by another necessary being, but Aquinas is quick to dismiss this conclusion ... suggest that God is only necessary in relation to contingent entities.17 So.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1468-2265.2009.00476.x
by another necessary being, but Aquinas is quick to dismiss this conclusion ... suggest that God is only necessary in relation to contingent entities.17 So.
Necessary Beings: An Essay on Ontology, Modality, and the ...
https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/necessary-beings-an-essay-on-ontology-modality-and-the-relations-between-them/
In this important new book, Bob Hale presents a distinctive theory of the relations between ontology and modality, and develops an original ...
https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/necessary-beings-an-essay-on-ontology-modality-and-the-relations-between-them/
In this important new book, Bob Hale presents a distinctive theory of the relations between ontology and modality, and develops an original ...
Lecture notes, March 5, 1997: Existence of God - GJ Mattey's
https://hume.ucdavis.edu/kant/GODLEC.HTM
The necessary being is not determined by some other being (else it would be contingent) and so is entirely self-determined. Only the ens realissimum is ...
https://hume.ucdavis.edu/kant/GODLEC.HTM
The necessary being is not determined by some other being (else it would be contingent) and so is entirely self-determined. Only the ens realissimum is ...
Existence of God | Definition, Arguments, & Facts | Britannica
https://www.britannica.com/topic/existence-of-God
Something must be the first or prime mover, the first efficient cause, the necessary ground of contingent beings, the supreme perfection ...
https://www.britannica.com/topic/existence-of-God
Something must be the first or prime mover, the first efficient cause, the necessary ground of contingent beings, the supreme perfection ...
Necessity - Catholic Answers
https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/necessity
Considered under its metaphysical aspect, being in its relation to existence is divided into necessary and contingent. A necessary being is one of which the ...
https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/necessity
Considered under its metaphysical aspect, being in its relation to existence is divided into necessary and contingent. A necessary being is one of which the ...
God: Necessary or Noncontingent? - Maverick Philosopher
https://maverickphilosopher.typepad.com/maverick_philosopher/2010/05/god-necessary-or-noncontingent.html
Many theists in the tradition of Anselm and Aquinas define God as a necessary being. But if God is a necessary being, then he cannot not ...
https://maverickphilosopher.typepad.com/maverick_philosopher/2010/05/god-necessary-or-noncontingent.html
Many theists in the tradition of Anselm and Aquinas define God as a necessary being. But if God is a necessary being, then he cannot not ...
Kant on the Cosmological Argument - University of Michigan
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/p/pod/dod-idx/kant-on-the-cosmological-argument.pdf?c=phimp;idno=3521354.0014.012;format=pdf
in attempting to infer the existence of an absolutely necessary being from the existence of a contingent self: If I am contingent, then there must be ...
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/p/pod/dod-idx/kant-on-the-cosmological-argument.pdf?c=phimp;idno=3521354.0014.012;format=pdf
in attempting to infer the existence of an absolutely necessary being from the existence of a contingent self: If I am contingent, then there must be ...
Robert C. Koons: Phl 356 Lecture #4
http://www.leaderu.com/offices/koons/docs/lec4.html
(Maimonides seems to be assuming that an eternal being would be a necessary being.) Alternatively, if the past is infinitely long, and every being is contingent ...
http://www.leaderu.com/offices/koons/docs/lec4.html
(Maimonides seems to be assuming that an eternal being would be a necessary being.) Alternatively, if the past is infinitely long, and every being is contingent ...
Argument from Contingency and Necessity - wikishia
https://en.wikishia.net/view/Argument_from_Contingency_and_Necessity
It is impossible for all beings to be contingent, because a contingent being needs a cause in order to come into existence, and if all causes ...
https://en.wikishia.net/view/Argument_from_Contingency_and_Necessity
It is impossible for all beings to be contingent, because a contingent being needs a cause in order to come into existence, and if all causes ...
Contingency - Encyclopedia.com
https://www.encyclopedia.com/science-and-technology/physics/science-general/contingency
The most contingent of things involves at least existential necessity, in the sense that having being it cannot at the same time and under the same aspect not ...
https://www.encyclopedia.com/science-and-technology/physics/science-general/contingency
The most contingent of things involves at least existential necessity, in the sense that having being it cannot at the same time and under the same aspect not ...
Thomas Aquinas and the Five Ways
https://homeweb.csulb.edu/~cwallis/100/st2.html
To account for all existence, there must be a Necessary Being, God. * The fourth way shows that there exist gradations in things, for example more noble and ...
https://homeweb.csulb.edu/~cwallis/100/st2.html
To account for all existence, there must be a Necessary Being, God. * The fourth way shows that there exist gradations in things, for example more noble and ...
Thomas Aquinas on Necessary Truths about Contingent Beings
https://www.academia.edu/2118411/Thomas_Aquinas_on_Necessary_Truths_about_Contingent_Beings
Thomas Aquinas on Necessary Truths about Contingent Beings. ... 27 Aquinas recognized that there was a relationship between modality of an event and the ...
https://www.academia.edu/2118411/Thomas_Aquinas_on_Necessary_Truths_about_Contingent_Beings
Thomas Aquinas on Necessary Truths about Contingent Beings. ... 27 Aquinas recognized that there was a relationship between modality of an event and the ...
Chapter Seven | Creature and Creator - The Openness of Being
https://www.giffordlectures.org/books/openness-being-natural-theology-today/chapter-seven-creature-and-creator-0
Whatever causal relations it may have to other beings, it is not just a state of ... (Major premiss) If there is contingent being, there is necessary being;.
https://www.giffordlectures.org/books/openness-being-natural-theology-today/chapter-seven-creature-and-creator-0
Whatever causal relations it may have to other beings, it is not just a state of ... (Major premiss) If there is contingent being, there is necessary being;.
SKETCH FOR A FORMAL NATURAL THEOLOGY ... - SciELO
https://www.scielo.br/j/man/a/5tRrbp5BDwkycKrWKBWM3kM/
In section 6, I present an extension of the theory M that allows proving the actual existence of a necessary being regardless of whether the ...
https://www.scielo.br/j/man/a/5tRrbp5BDwkycKrWKBWM3kM/
In section 6, I present an extension of the theory M that allows proving the actual existence of a necessary being regardless of whether the ...
Phil of Religion Questions
http://people.tamu.edu/~sdaniel/quesrel.html
16. According to Thomas Aquinas, the existence of contingent beings require the existence of a necessary being without which their existence would be ...
http://people.tamu.edu/~sdaniel/quesrel.html
16. According to Thomas Aquinas, the existence of contingent beings require the existence of a necessary being without which their existence would be ...
Essay: Cosmological Argument - Philosophical Investigations
https://peped.org/philosophicalinvestigations/essay-cosmological-argument/
Therefore, 'there must exist something the existence of which is necessary.' Aquinas goes on to state that, because he believes infinite ...
https://peped.org/philosophicalinvestigations/essay-cosmological-argument/
Therefore, 'there must exist something the existence of which is necessary.' Aquinas goes on to state that, because he believes infinite ...
A Debate on the Argument from Contingency - DiText
http://www.ditext.com/russell/debate.html
Copleston: Take the proposition "if there is a contingent being then there is a necessary being." I consider that that proposition hypothetically expressed is a ...
http://www.ditext.com/russell/debate.html
Copleston: Take the proposition "if there is a contingent being then there is a necessary being." I consider that that proposition hypothetically expressed is a ...
Clarke's Cosmological Argument Essay (Critical Writing)
https://ivypanda.com/essays/clarkes-cosmological-argument/
This is the feature of necessary being that is vital to theism. As it applies to things or events, contingent implies dependent or caused. In ...
https://ivypanda.com/essays/clarkes-cosmological-argument/
This is the feature of necessary being that is vital to theism. As it applies to things or events, contingent implies dependent or caused. In ...
Necessary vs Contingent in Philosophy (explained ... - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PTf8UJBY8U
Philosophy Vibe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PTf8UJBY8U
Philosophy Vibe
God, matter, and necessary existence - Thinking Thought Out
https://thinkingthoughtout.com/2019/10/19/god-matter-and-necessary-existence/
In contemporary metaphysics, “necessary” and “contingent” are cashed out in terms of possible worlds: a thing has necessary existence if it ...
https://thinkingthoughtout.com/2019/10/19/god-matter-and-necessary-existence/
In contemporary metaphysics, “necessary” and “contingent” are cashed out in terms of possible worlds: a thing has necessary existence if it ...
Arguments for the Existence of God from Revelation and Reason
https://flexbooks.ck12.org/user:coachtgj/cbook/episd-philosophy/section/3.2/primary/lesson/arguments-for-the-existence-of-god-from-revelation-and-reason/
So if it is possible that God is a necessary being then God exists. Because God is not a contingent being. God must exist as the necessary being ...
https://flexbooks.ck12.org/user:coachtgj/cbook/episd-philosophy/section/3.2/primary/lesson/arguments-for-the-existence-of-god-from-revelation-and-reason/
So if it is possible that God is a necessary being then God exists. Because God is not a contingent being. God must exist as the necessary being ...
Koons v Oppy: Necessary Being to God? A Review
https://apologeticsforall.com/2021/02/21/koons-v-oppy-necessary-being-to-god-a-review/
While one cannot definitively rule out contingent origin or infinite regress, causal finitism with a necessary being is the best explanation ...
https://apologeticsforall.com/2021/02/21/koons-v-oppy-necessary-being-to-god-a-review/
While one cannot definitively rule out contingent origin or infinite regress, causal finitism with a necessary being is the best explanation ...
Grounding: Necessary or Contingent? - Kelly Trogdon
https://www.kellytrogdon.org/ewExternalFiles/GNC.pdf
Grounding not being purely modal in character, however, is compatible with it having modal con- sequences. Is grounding a necessary relation?
https://www.kellytrogdon.org/ewExternalFiles/GNC.pdf
Grounding not being purely modal in character, however, is compatible with it having modal con- sequences. Is grounding a necessary relation?
Bruce R. Reichenbach, "The Cosmological Argument. A ...
https://search.proquest.com/openview/49ab66d65ea7b859713344fe441f4f87/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1818586
Thomas's type of proof, and formulates his argument as follows: A contingent being exists; this contingent being depelnds oni somethinig else for its existence; ...
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Thomas's type of proof, and formulates his argument as follows: A contingent being exists; this contingent being depelnds oni somethinig else for its existence; ...
The Thomistic Cosmological Argument | With All I Am
https://withalliamgod.wordpress.com/2013/12/01/the-thomistic-cosmological-argument/
(a') A contingent being is one that requires a cause to exist. Hence, whatever exists contingently never ceases its requiring of a cause. This ...
https://withalliamgod.wordpress.com/2013/12/01/the-thomistic-cosmological-argument/
(a') A contingent being is one that requires a cause to exist. Hence, whatever exists contingently never ceases its requiring of a cause. This ...
Thomas Aquinas on Creation (or How to Read ... - William Witt
https://willgwitt.org/thomas-aquinas-on-creation1/
It exists absolutely necessarily. That which is necessary through another is caused. Its existence is contingent in itself, but necessary through that whose ...
https://willgwitt.org/thomas-aquinas-on-creation1/
It exists absolutely necessarily. That which is necessary through another is caused. Its existence is contingent in itself, but necessary through that whose ...
Non-Being and Hartshorne's Concept of God - Religion Online
https://www.religion-online.org/article/non-being-and-hartshornes-concept-of-god/
Thus, we see that the ontological argument proves the existence of God if and only if there is some actual, concrete state (any one will do) in which Perfection ...
https://www.religion-online.org/article/non-being-and-hartshornes-concept-of-god/
Thus, we see that the ontological argument proves the existence of God if and only if there is some actual, concrete state (any one will do) in which Perfection ...
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- Contingent being , as described , is a being that even if has existed , it could not have existed at all . Possible being , is a being that tend to exist ...
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- Contingent being , as described , is a being that even if has existed , it could not have existed at all . Possible being , is a being that tend to exist ...
(PDF) Cosmological argument - ResearchGate
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/34707478_Cosmological_argument
contingent beings or include a non-contingent (necessary) being. 5. Contingent beings alone cannot cause or explain the existence of a ...
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/34707478_Cosmological_argument
contingent beings or include a non-contingent (necessary) being. 5. Contingent beings alone cannot cause or explain the existence of a ...
THE EXISTENCE OF GOD - University of Idaho
https://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/ngier/309/goexist.htm
This means that these entities are contingent, not necessary, beings. ... Edwards counters this with an observation that this relationship does not always ...
https://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/ngier/309/goexist.htm
This means that these entities are contingent, not necessary, beings. ... Edwards counters this with an observation that this relationship does not always ...
Rasmussen's New Argument for a Necessary Being
https://useofreason.wordpress.com/2018/08/19/rasmussens-new-argument-for-a-necessary-being/
Rasmussen's New Argument for a Necessary Being · Normally, for any intrinsic property p that (i) can begin to be exemplified and (ii) can be ...
https://useofreason.wordpress.com/2018/08/19/rasmussens-new-argument-for-a-necessary-being/
Rasmussen's New Argument for a Necessary Being · Normally, for any intrinsic property p that (i) can begin to be exemplified and (ii) can be ...
6. Arguments against the Cosmological - James Holt
https://jamesdholt.com/resources-for-teaching-religious-studies/philosophy-of-religion/the-cosmological-argument/arguments-against-the-cosmological/
Kant argues that the concept of necessary being is illogical and a nonsense. He argues that necessary existence is meaningless and self contradictory. To argue ...
https://jamesdholt.com/resources-for-teaching-religious-studies/philosophy-of-religion/the-cosmological-argument/arguments-against-the-cosmological/
Kant argues that the concept of necessary being is illogical and a nonsense. He argues that necessary existence is meaningless and self contradictory. To argue ...
An 'Undefeatable' Cosmological Argument?
http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1555066/FULLTEXT01.pdf
2.2 Contingent and Necessary Existence ... relations are contingent. ... an intrinsic property is supposed to be a 1-place relation between.
http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1555066/FULLTEXT01.pdf
2.2 Contingent and Necessary Existence ... relations are contingent. ... an intrinsic property is supposed to be a 1-place relation between.
Necessity (and Contingency) - The Metaphysicist
https://metaphysicist.com/problems/necessity/
Gottfried Leibniz gave us the best definition of logical necessity in his discussion of necessary and contingent truths. Beyond a priori and analytic, this is ...
https://metaphysicist.com/problems/necessity/
Gottfried Leibniz gave us the best definition of logical necessity in his discussion of necessary and contingent truths. Beyond a priori and analytic, this is ...
Necessary/contingent truths - Oxford Reference
https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100226735
A contingent truth is one that is true, but could have been false. A necessary truth is one that must be true; a contingent truth is one that is true as it ...
https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100226735
A contingent truth is one that is true, but could have been false. A necessary truth is one that must be true; a contingent truth is one that is true as it ...
Samuel Clarke's Cosmological Argument
https://etd.library.emory.edu/downloads/b8515n58r?locale=de
conception of a necessary being, but also its use of Newtonian ... of this discovery, in relation to Clarke, is the effect that this had on ...
https://etd.library.emory.edu/downloads/b8515n58r?locale=de
conception of a necessary being, but also its use of Newtonian ... of this discovery, in relation to Clarke, is the effect that this had on ...
Cosmological Argument | philosophycat
https://www.philosophycat.org/cosmological
If you had a time when no contingent beings existed, none would come to exist, as there would be no contingent beings around to cause them. Hence, Aquinas ...
https://www.philosophycat.org/cosmological
If you had a time when no contingent beings existed, none would come to exist, as there would be no contingent beings around to cause them. Hence, Aquinas ...
Cosmological argument Flashcards | Chegg.com
https://www.chegg.com/flashcards/cosmological-argument-41adb6b5-fb04-461d-be3b-3e1dc76de912/deck
Aquinas argued that a cosmos consisting of only contingent entities must have a necessary being. Contingent- "things are possible to be on not to be, ...
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Aquinas argued that a cosmos consisting of only contingent entities must have a necessary being. Contingent- "things are possible to be on not to be, ...
Leibniz On Necessary and Contingent Truths
https://www.banglajol.info/index.php/AFJ/article/view/12936/9300
to be a necessary truth. But the latter proposition reduces to “No A is not-A”, not “All A is A”. And in “No A is not-A” the relation.
https://www.banglajol.info/index.php/AFJ/article/view/12936/9300
to be a necessary truth. But the latter proposition reduces to “No A is not-A”, not “All A is A”. And in “No A is not-A” the relation.
Leibniz on hypothetical necessity - HonestThinking
http://www.honestthinking.org/en/pub/HT.2005.06.JTA.Leibniz_on_hypothetical_necessity.htm
[1] Thus while free acts are contingent in one sense, they are necessary in ... in relation to something else, or else it could not have been caused to be.
http://www.honestthinking.org/en/pub/HT.2005.06.JTA.Leibniz_on_hypothetical_necessity.htm
[1] Thus while free acts are contingent in one sense, they are necessary in ... in relation to something else, or else it could not have been caused to be.
Proofs for the Existence of God, The Cosmological Argument
https://wrestling-with-philosophy.com/2013/10/09/summa-theologica-and-the-five-ways-proofs-for-the-existence-of-god-the-cosmological-argument/
In other words, the thing's existence isn't necessary but contingent. We can sort of simply the argument like this: Everything in the universe ...
https://wrestling-with-philosophy.com/2013/10/09/summa-theologica-and-the-five-ways-proofs-for-the-existence-of-god-the-cosmological-argument/
In other words, the thing's existence isn't necessary but contingent. We can sort of simply the argument like this: Everything in the universe ...
Arguing God from Pure Existence? | Closer to Truth
https://www.closertotruth.com/series/arguing-god-pure-existence
Contingency is what is necessary, for existence to be necessary. Like the circle, it is contingent - but only upon itself. Something that is only contingent ...
https://www.closertotruth.com/series/arguing-god-pure-existence
Contingency is what is necessary, for existence to be necessary. Like the circle, it is contingent - but only upon itself. Something that is only contingent ...
2. Reasons to Believe – Theoretical Arguments - Rebus Press
https://press.rebus.community/intro-to-phil-of-religion/chapter/reasons-to-believe-theoretical-arguments/
As contingent beings, we are the sort of things which can come into and go out of existence. But if God exists, then he is a necessary being rather than a ...
https://press.rebus.community/intro-to-phil-of-religion/chapter/reasons-to-believe-theoretical-arguments/
As contingent beings, we are the sort of things which can come into and go out of existence. But if God exists, then he is a necessary being rather than a ...
Avicenna, Aquinas and the Real Distinction
https://www.anselm.edu/sites/default/files/Documents/Institute%20of%20SA%20Studies/Avicenna,%20Aquinas%20and%20the%20Real%20Distinction-%20%20In%20Defense%20of%20Mere%20Possibilities%20or%20Why%20Existence%20Matters%20.pdf
flowing from a necessary being, and Aquinas's, contingent through and through? ... In knowing itself as necessary in relation to its cause, this.
https://www.anselm.edu/sites/default/files/Documents/Institute%20of%20SA%20Studies/Avicenna,%20Aquinas%20and%20the%20Real%20Distinction-%20%20In%20Defense%20of%20Mere%20Possibilities%20or%20Why%20Existence%20Matters%20.pdf
flowing from a necessary being, and Aquinas's, contingent through and through? ... In knowing itself as necessary in relation to its cause, this.
The Necessity of Contingency, Part 2: Human Freedom
https://conciliarpost.com/dialogues/the-necessity-of-contingency-part-2-human-freedom/
Man is a contingent being. All of the created order is contingent. It is not necessary that it exist. A contingent thing cannot bring itself ...
https://conciliarpost.com/dialogues/the-necessity-of-contingency-part-2-human-freedom/
Man is a contingent being. All of the created order is contingent. It is not necessary that it exist. A contingent thing cannot bring itself ...
Contingent and Necessary - Berfrois
https://www.berfrois.com/2014/06/contingent-and-necessary/
On Necessary and Contingent Truths, With Special Reference to Mt. Kilimanjaro ... This contingent truth however, turned out to be false, ...
https://www.berfrois.com/2014/06/contingent-and-necessary/
On Necessary and Contingent Truths, With Special Reference to Mt. Kilimanjaro ... This contingent truth however, turned out to be false, ...
WHY IS THERE ANYTHING AT ALL? Peter van Inwagen and ...
https://andrewmbailey.com/pvi/Why_Is_There_Anything_At_All.pdf
contingent beings-that is, necessary beings. But we know by observation that there are beings, and every being is either contingent or necessary.
https://andrewmbailey.com/pvi/Why_Is_There_Anything_At_All.pdf
contingent beings-that is, necessary beings. But we know by observation that there are beings, and every being is either contingent or necessary.
The Necessity of God's Existence: Ontological Arguments ...
https://crossexamined.org/necessity-gods-existence-ontological-arguments-worth-considering/
Since I am a contingent being, it is necessary in all possible worlds that I have a reason for my existence (by my parents or another set of ...
https://crossexamined.org/necessity-gods-existence-ontological-arguments-worth-considering/
Since I am a contingent being, it is necessary in all possible worlds that I have a reason for my existence (by my parents or another set of ...
Essential Philosophy - ClassicalU
https://classicalu.com/wp-content/uploads/Essential-Philosophy-Lesson-8-Temp.pdf
It must have been a really powerful being—and God perfectly fits that mold. ... o Aquinas doesn't talk about contingent beings vs. necessary beings, while.
https://classicalu.com/wp-content/uploads/Essential-Philosophy-Lesson-8-Temp.pdf
It must have been a really powerful being—and God perfectly fits that mold. ... o Aquinas doesn't talk about contingent beings vs. necessary beings, while.
The Doctrine of Essence (Actuality), Hegel
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/sl/slactual.htm
It is the actual, in the signification of something merely possible. Accordingly we consider the contingent to be what may or may not be, what may be in one way ...
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/sl/slactual.htm
It is the actual, in the signification of something merely possible. Accordingly we consider the contingent to be what may or may not be, what may be in one way ...
St. Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica - Christian Classics ...
https://www.ccel.org/ccel/aquinas/summa.FP_Q14_A13.html
Objection 1: It seems that the knowledge of God is not of future contingent things. For from a necessary cause proceeds a necessary effect. But the knowledge of ...
https://www.ccel.org/ccel/aquinas/summa.FP_Q14_A13.html
Objection 1: It seems that the knowledge of God is not of future contingent things. For from a necessary cause proceeds a necessary effect. But the knowledge of ...
The Cosmological Argument - Scholars Crossing
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1165&context=sor_fac_pubs
Necessary existence, for exam- ple, can be defined as the property of being "unable to cease to be capable of entering into causal relations." It seems clear to ...
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1165&context=sor_fac_pubs
Necessary existence, for exam- ple, can be defined as the property of being "unable to cease to be capable of entering into causal relations." It seems clear to ...
THE COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT FOR THE EXISTENCE ...
https://www.obinfonet.ro/docs/apo/Cosmological-Argument-for-Exist.pdf
be either (5) an infinite series of contingent beings, or (4) a necessary ... the argument is not dealing with an historical relationship of contingent ...
https://www.obinfonet.ro/docs/apo/Cosmological-Argument-for-Exist.pdf
be either (5) an infinite series of contingent beings, or (4) a necessary ... the argument is not dealing with an historical relationship of contingent ...
Sartre's Contingency of Being and Asouzu's Principle of ...
https://www.ajol.info/index.php/sophia/article/view/114743
The work has discovered that Sartre did not see contingent beings as having a necessary cause but that they are just there. Whereas, Asouzu on the hand opines ...
https://www.ajol.info/index.php/sophia/article/view/114743
The work has discovered that Sartre did not see contingent beings as having a necessary cause but that they are just there. Whereas, Asouzu on the hand opines ...
1-3 Arguments for the existence of God The cosmological ...
https://www.studocu.com/en-gb/document/bentley-wood-high-school-for-girls/philosophy/1-3-arguments-for-the-existence-of-god-the-cosmological-argument/25000323
C2 : So there must be an 'uncaused' necessary being who sustains all caused necessary beings and all contingent beings. C3 : This is God.
https://www.studocu.com/en-gb/document/bentley-wood-high-school-for-girls/philosophy/1-3-arguments-for-the-existence-of-god-the-cosmological-argument/25000323
C2 : So there must be an 'uncaused' necessary being who sustains all caused necessary beings and all contingent beings. C3 : This is God.
Aquinas Possibility And Necessity Analysis - 1771 Words | Cram
https://www.cram.com/essay/Thomas-Aquinas-The-Argument-Of-The-Existence/FK3L979CXXW
Through the Argument of Possibility and Necessity, the existence of God is proven. Possibility is having the tendency to stop existing or being contingent.
https://www.cram.com/essay/Thomas-Aquinas-The-Argument-Of-The-Existence/FK3L979CXXW
Through the Argument of Possibility and Necessity, the existence of God is proven. Possibility is having the tendency to stop existing or being contingent.
Epistemology: A Priori vs. A posteriori; Analytic vs. Synthetic ...
https://lucidphilosophy.com/1019-2/
Problems also arise in Philosophy of Religion. In the ontological argument, defenders present God as a necessary being because he is a being who must exist.
https://lucidphilosophy.com/1019-2/
Problems also arise in Philosophy of Religion. In the ontological argument, defenders present God as a necessary being because he is a being who must exist.
Why does anything at all exist? - Helton Duarte - Medium
https://heltonduarte.medium.com/why-does-anything-at-all-exist-cdf359d25e3b
Leibniz's argument · The universe is a contingent being; · God is a necessary being; · Only a necessary being would not require an explanation ...
https://heltonduarte.medium.com/why-does-anything-at-all-exist-cdf359d25e3b
Leibniz's argument · The universe is a contingent being; · God is a necessary being; · Only a necessary being would not require an explanation ...
The Lord of Non-Contradiction: An Argument for God from Logic
https://www.proginosko.com/docs/The_Lord_of_Non-Contradiction.pdf
What is the relationship between the laws of logic and the existence of God? ... classical laws are typically held to be necessary rather than contingent ...
https://www.proginosko.com/docs/The_Lord_of_Non-Contradiction.pdf
What is the relationship between the laws of logic and the existence of God? ... classical laws are typically held to be necessary rather than contingent ...
On Philipse's Attempt to Write Off All Deductive Cosmological ...
https://www.gjerutten.nl/OnPhilipsesAttemptPreprint.pdf
existence of a first cause or necessary being, which is God. ... the argument from the impossibility of there being contingent entities that are the ...
https://www.gjerutten.nl/OnPhilipsesAttemptPreprint.pdf
existence of a first cause or necessary being, which is God. ... the argument from the impossibility of there being contingent entities that are the ...
148. Valentine's Day Speculations: God, Love, and Free Will
https://philosophicaleggs.com/148-valentines-day-arguments-about-christian-love/
Premise 9: A contingent being is a being whose existence is not necessary and which depends for its existence on another.
https://philosophicaleggs.com/148-valentines-day-arguments-about-christian-love/
Premise 9: A contingent being is a being whose existence is not necessary and which depends for its existence on another.
Necessary by Nature? Possibility and the Mind of God
https://themarginaliareview.com/necessary-by-nature-possibility-and-the-mind-of-god/
So how can there be truths so absolutely necessary that they could and would be true even if no contingent being existed?
https://themarginaliareview.com/necessary-by-nature-possibility-and-the-mind-of-god/
So how can there be truths so absolutely necessary that they could and would be true even if no contingent being existed?
The Argument from (Natural) Numbers1 - Philosophy
http://philosophy.wfu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/The-Argument-From-Numbers-Ty.pdf
for Plantinga's own view on the relationship between God and his properties see ... numbers are necessary beings while the intellects are contingent beings, ...
http://philosophy.wfu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/The-Argument-From-Numbers-Ty.pdf
for Plantinga's own view on the relationship between God and his properties see ... numbers are necessary beings while the intellects are contingent beings, ...
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