Sentence examples for necessarily existing from inspiring English sources
But many traditional ontological disputes are over the existence of necessarily existing kinds of entity, such as mathematical entities or intensional entities.
For one thing, they are all compatible with the existence of a necessarily existing God (recall 3.5).
This independent being is "self-existent, that is, necessarily existing" (D 12, W 2.527), a conclusion he also reaches by arguing that space and time cannot be conceived not to exist and they are obviously not self-existent, so the substance on which they depend, God, must exist necessarily as well (D 13, W 2.527 528).
There does not appear to be anything amiss in their thinking of God as necessarily existing; if the belief that God exists is incoherent this is not obvious.
But if there were infinite modes that were compossible with the collection of necessarily existing infinite modes and yet did not exist, what could explain their non-existence?
More generally, because there is a chain of necessary dependence stretching from the necessarily existing substance to every existing infinite mode, the existence of every existing infinite is absolutely necessary.
In the case of substances, Spinoza claims that every existing substance necessarily exists (Ip7d).
Even if every existing infinite mode necessarily exists, could there have been other infinite modes as well?
There is, therefore, no basis whatsoever for the a priori claim that there necessarily exists an original, self-existing being that is an immaterial, intelligent being (i.e., God).
It is worth mentioning that for Brentano it was not just the "now" that existed only as a boundary; since, like Aristotle he held that "existence" in the strict sense means "existence now", it necessarily followed that existing things exist only as boundaries of what has existed or of what will exist, or both.
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