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Can you give an example of a "necessary" thing? You brought up the square having four sides thing, but that's not about existence. Furthermore, why does a cont
by teolandon 4y ago
Can you give an example of a "necessary" thing? You brought up the square having four sides thing, but that's not about existence.
Furthermore, why does a contingent thing have to depend on a necessary thing?
- jawns 4y agoThe Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy presents a brief overview that addresses some of the questions you raise: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/god-necessary-being/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/god-necessary-being/
- teolandon 4y agoNo it does not.
- logicchop 4y agoDepends on if you mean direct-dependence or some ancestral-dependence. Contingent things can depend on other contingent things in some narrow scope. But a complete answer to "why X?" (e.g., "because Y") should avoid begging the question (e.g., "ok, why Y?").