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Contingent and Necessary Being – Part 2

Contingent and Necessary Being – Part 2

This world, is a world of similitude and we have to try to understand the reality of things by analogy This is because it is almost impossible for us to comprehend the true nature of thing Through analogies we make sense of thing Analogy of an artist The artist paints a beautiful art piece on […]

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Contingent and Necessary Being – Part 1

Contingent and Necessary Being – Part 1

Difference between existence and essence of an object. Many different ways of understanding the topic Existence of a thing is to be combined with the essence of a thing The locus of existence, however, needs to be defined carefully An object might not have a physical outer existence like the unicorn, for example But the […]

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