Alternatively, a proponent of the modal-existential account could simply bite the bullet and insist that every contingent entity does rigidly depend for its existence on necessary existents.
Hartshorne agrees with traditional theism that God exists without the possibility of not existing (sometimes called necessary existence or existence a se) and that God is necessarily supreme in love, knowledge, and power.
Especially since Ibn Sina, the deity was widely identified with wajib al-wujud, "that whose existence is necessary"; but, as a philosophical category, is "necessary existence" necessarily unique?
And just as it is better to exist than not to exist, it is better to exist necessarily than just to exist contingently, therefore Wolff concludes that God's existence is necessary.
But though the fact that something's existence is necessary for the existence of something else holds for certain properties (for example, the existence of children is necessary for someone to be a parent), it is doubtful that something's existence is necessary for something else's nonexistence per se, which is what is needed to support the argument that denies the contingency of the universe.
Of course, even in Europe only a pacifist minority denies the existence of necessary, unavoidable, justified wars.
Members of the Inter-American Commission on HumarmRights, an arm of the Organization of American States, expressed frustration and dissatisfaction with the National Security Agency's mass surveillance of foreign nationals – something the agency argues is both central to its existence and necessary to prevent terrorism.
Sometimes it seems as if Israelis and Palestinians have no clear identities without the conflict, without the "enemy", whose existence is necessary, perhaps vital, to their sense of self and community.
The prosecution argues that covering up the affair and the baby's existence was necessary for Edwards's campaign to continue that it was, in an odd way, a genuine campaign expense.
