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Single Idea 14664
[filed under theme 7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being
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Full Idea
A 'necessary being' is one that exists in every possible world; and only some objects - numbers, properties, pure sets, propositions, states of affairs, God - have this distinction.
Gist of Idea
Necessary beings (numbers, properties, sets, propositions, states of affairs, God) exist in all possible worlds
Source
Alvin Plantinga (Actualism and Possible Worlds [1976], 2)
Book Ref
Plantinga,Alvin: 'Essays in the Metaphysics of Modality' [OUP 2003], p.110
A Reaction
This a very odd list, though it is fairly orthodox among philosophers trained in modern modal logic. At the very least it looks rather parochial to me.
The
28 ideas
with the same theme
[the nature of pure being]:
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448
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No necessity could produce Being either later or earlier, so it must exist absolutely or not at all
[Parmenides]
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447
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Being must be eternal and uncreated, and hence it is timeless
[Parmenides]
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449
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Being is not divisible, since it is all alike
[Parmenides]
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12270
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Being is one
[Melissus, by Aristotle]
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20901
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True Being only occurs when it is completely full, with atoms and no void
[Democritus, by Aristotle]
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12348
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There are four kinds of being: incidental, per se, potential and actual, and being as truth
[Aristotle, by Wedin]
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11194
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Being is either what falls in the categories, or what makes propositions true
[Aristotle, by Aquinas]
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11288
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Things are predicated of the basic thing, which isn't predicated of anything else
[Aristotle]
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15776
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There is only being in a certain way, and without that way there is no being
[Aristotle]
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611
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Being, taken simply as being, is the domain of philosophy
[Aristotle]
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22121
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The concept of being has only one meaning, whether talking of universals or of God
[Duns Scotus, by Dumont]
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22122
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Being (not sensation or God) is the primary object of the intellect
[Duns Scotus, by Dumont]
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16789
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Only supernatural means could annihilate anything once it had being
[Hobbes]
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6919
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Absolute thought remains in another world from being
[Feuerbach]
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19457
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Being is what is undetermined, and hence indistinguishable
[Feuerbach]
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22209
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Our goal is to reveal a new hidden region of Being
[Husserl]
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11010
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Being is what belongs to every possible object of thought
[Russell]
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21897
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Reducing being to the study of beings too readily accepts the modern scientific view
[Heidegger, by May]
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15573
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For us, Being is constituted by awareness of other sorts of Being
[Heidegger]
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22333
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Only language is understandable Being
[Gadamer]
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21908
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Ontology can be continual creation, not to know being, but to probe the unknowable
[Deleuze]
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21902
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'Being' is univocal, but its subject matter is actually 'difference'
[Deleuze]
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14664
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Necessary beings (numbers, properties, sets, propositions, states of affairs, God) exist in all possible worlds
[Plantinga]
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12340
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There is no Being as a whole, because there is no set of all sets
[Badiou]
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9809
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Mathematics inscribes being as such
[Badiou]
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14401
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Every proposition is entirely about being
[Lewis]
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7707
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To grasp being, we must say why something exists, and why there is one world
[Jacquette]
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12254
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Being is substantial/accidental, complete/incomplete, necessary/contingent, possible, relative, intrinsic..
[Oderberg]
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