According to Henry, there is no real community, within creatural being, between substantial being and accidental being; as a consequence, given that the distance between God's being and creatures' being is much greater than the difference between the being of substance and that of accidents, being cannot be something common to both God and creatures.
This ki is described variously in terms of its clarity or turbidity, but invariably things that exist have it as their substantial being.
Most fundamental among his many arguments against them is his conviction that a substantial form confers substantial being upon a composite substance.
(OPD 6: 249) Desgabets's voluntarism, then, is a qualified one, for though the eternal truths depend upon God for their existence as their primary cause, they are no less indefectible, that is, they are unchangeable in their substantial being.
Some have taken it to be whatever exists, some to be whatever is or can be the object of scientific inquiry, some take it to be a claim of essential or substantial being (Owen 1960, Furth 1993, Mourelatos 1971, Curd 2004, Palmer 2009).
(Quoted in Lott: 111) However, surprisingly (from a western perspective at least), Madhva thinks that while prakriti (the material or stuff out of which the space-time world is composed), time, space, and souls derive their qualities from God, they don't derive their existence or substantial being from him.
