(August 12, 2012 at 5:27 am)CliveStaples Wrote: If something like "Does it seem that a Necessary Being exists" is making an assumption about the existence of some Necessary Being, I'd really like to see how or why.
I find it quite impossible to say whether "Does it seem that a Necessary Being exists" is making an assumption without first learning what you mean by a "necessary being"? Are some of us optional? What is it that makes some beings necessary? I've heard the term before but could never make any sense of it. Perhaps it is like Plato's idea of ideal forms? Is your 'necessary being' like the template for all of us actual approximations? I dunno.
