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Can anyone provide an argument for a necessary being?

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Can anyone provide an argument for a necessary being?
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RE: Can anyone provide an argument for a necessary being?
April 21, 2014 at 12:42 pm
(April 21, 2014 at 11:23 am)LostLocke Wrote:
(April 21, 2014 at 11:06 am)ChadWooters Wrote: The question with which he was concerned was how things preserve their identity throughout change.
Can you give an example of this?

I'm thinking in terms of things like..... there's a tree here, I set the tree on fire, the tree is reduced to ashes. I'm not seeing much of a tree 'identity' in that pile of ashes.
The most common examples are living things an personal identity. An acorn becomes a sapling then a mature oak. Is it the same tree at all stages of its development? Once you were an infant now you are grown. Are you the same person?
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RE: Can anyone provide an argument for a necessary being? - by Neo-Scholastic - April 21, 2014 at 12:42 pm

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