What does it mean if something exists necessarily?

A thing exists necessarily if however things had been, it would still have existed. The standard candidates include such abstract entities as numbers, and in religious thought, God.

Does something have to be created in order to exist?

Something can exist but never be created, until we know what lead to its creation. We humans have this notion that if there exist something than someone or some phenomena must have created that thing.

How do we know that something exists?

There is no definite way to confirm that we know anything at all. Only from our direct experience can we claim any knowledge about the world. It is hard to imagine a world that exists outside of what we can perceive. Experience, however, comes through the lens of perception.

Is there such a thing as reality?

Reality is the sum or aggregate of all that is real or existent within a system, as opposed to that which is only imaginary. The term is also used to refer to the ontological status of things, indicating their existence. In physical terms, reality is the totality of a system, known and unknown.

What does it mean for God to be necessary?

The notion of necessary being, applied to God and withheld from man, indicates that God and man differ not merely in the characteristics which they possess but more fundamentally, in their modes of being, or in the fact that they exist in different senses of the word ‘exist’.

Is God metaphysically necessary?

While many theologians (e.g. Anselm of Canterbury, René Descartes, and Gottfried Leibniz) considered God to be a logically or metaphysically necessary being, Richard Swinburne argued for factual necessity, and Alvin Plantinga argues that God is a causally necessary being.

Do ideas exist independently?

Short answer yes . Ideas exist independent of form. Consciousness creates physical things not the other way around.

Can necessary existence come from nothing?

E. g., “necessary existence” is distinguished from contingent existence in that necessary existence cannot not exist. Problem with Creation ex nihilo. Thomas’ statement of our premiss (3) that nothing can come from nothing is expressed by him this way: “…that which does not exist begins to exist only through something already existing.”

What is the difference between exist and exist?

Exist or Exists is a matter of past, present, and future with indirect context. Past: The file was not found. Did it ever exist? It never existed. Has been (existing) is a reference to previously existed and currently exists. Comparing the creation and modification time stamp indicates the file existed without change, for 17 days.

Is necessary existence a real predicate?

Nevertheless, Charles Hartshorne claims that the predicate “necessary existence” does add something the concept of God and so is a real predicate or property. E. g., “necessary existence” is distinguished from contingent existence in that necessary existence cannot not exist. Problem with Creation ex nihilo.

What does it mean if a file has been or never existed?

It never existed. Has been (existing) is a reference to previously existed and currently exists. Comparing the creation and modification time stamp indicates the file existed without change, for 17 days. (Current existence is implied.) Present: The file does exist.