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Godfrey makes a clear but implicit reference to ST I, q. 3, a. 4 where Thomas writes that even when we recognize that God is, the "is" which we understand is not the act of being whereby God subsists in himself, but only that indicating that the proposition "that he is" is true (PB 3.383).
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I'm happy for my god to subsist in a rock, or in the crab under it.
"They adore the one God, living and subsisting in Himself; merciful and all-powerful, the Creator of Heaven and earth".
He is sympathetic both to the arguments of those who deny that God can make matter subsist independently of form and to the arguments of those who claim he can.
Another question James considers is whether God can make an accident subsist without a subject or substrate.
In Greek religion, the most perfect manifestation of paganism, every one of these domains subsists by itself: the gods, the cosmos, and the human as the tragic, solitary, silent hero.
"An Essay on the Trinity" argues that God's essence is a love which subsists "in pure act and perfect energy," his holy will or activity (Edwards 1957–, vol. 21, 113 14, 122).
In a clear adoption of what is called universal hylemorphism, Kilwardby claims that everything that subsists on its own, apart from God, has two compositing principles, a quod est (matter) and a quo est (form) (DOS 256; 265; 268; QLIS 35, 90; QLIS 60, 171; QLIIS 14, 51 2).
Like Łukasiewicz, Meinong does not accord propositions a dignity of necessity higher than truth, and despite having the most ample ontology known to philosophy, Meinong's object theory lacks objects described as necessary: he never mentions God, and ideal objects such as numbers are taken by him to subsist, not to exist or subsist necessarily.
She would subsist on apples while "awaiting further instructions" from God. Linda settled into a routine.
He also wrote: "Poetry is the power given by God to man of manifesting... the wise relations that subsist between him and God", and it "is that crystal river of the soul which runs through all the avenues of life, and after purifying the affections of the heart, empties itself into the Sea of God".
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