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Necessary and Essential Existence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Alvin Plantinga
Alvin Plantinga*
Affiliation:
Calvin College
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Extract

First, I wish to thank Professor Carter for his comments. They do contain some misunderstandings, however, some of which I shall try to straighten out.

In The Nature of Necessity (NN) I argued that every object has the property of existence essentially, but only some things — propositions, properties, perhaps God — have the property of necessary existence (p. 61).

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , March 1976 , pp. 105 - 111
Copyright
Copyright © The Authors 1976

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