Every existing thing, he begins, exists either through something or through nothing.
From this thesis, it is deduced that the existing thing cannot have come into existence, because to say that it could would be to speak of a time when it did not exist.
God is the existence, the life, and the reality of every existing thing.
His position is that although whatever exists has relations and is conditioned, it is nonetheless a specific existing thing with qualities of its own.
Recall that our thought experiment asked us to "imagine a race of beings that is very different from any life-form that actually exists anywhere in the universe; different enough, in fact, that no actually existing thing could have been an Alien, any more than a given gorilla could have been a fruitfly".
Imagine a race of beings — call them 'Aliens' — that is very different from any life-form that exists anywhere in the universe; different enough, in fact, that no actually existing thing could have been an Alien, any more than a given gorilla could have been a fruitfly.
An actually existing thing, then, such as an existing body, is its essence brought to existence.
To add one, I have to multiply by something because I take a proportion of the existing thing and add it to itself to add one more step.
In the opposing view, known as absolutism, space is an independently existing thing, and what facts about the universe there may be do not necessarily coincide with what can in principle be established by measurement.
Relationism, as this view of the nature of space is called, asserts that space is not an independently existing thing but merely a mathematical representation of the infinity of different spatial relations that particles may have to each other.
For from the potentially existing the actually existing is always produced by an actually existing thing, e.g. man from man, musician by musician; there is always a first mover, and the mover already exists actually.
