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... things , or when medieval philosophers attempted to establish the characteristics of what they called the ens realissimum ( " the most real being " ) , or the original and perfect being , they were looking for something that , in ...
... things , or when medieval philosophers attempted to establish the characteristics of what they called the ens realissimum ( " the most real being " ) , or the original and perfect being , they were looking for something that , in ...
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... things , of whatever order , cannot be endlessly dependent on other contingent things but must presuppose a first cause that is self - complete and so ex- ists necessarily . In Hegel the necessary being is not a separate existent but ...
... things , of whatever order , cannot be endlessly dependent on other contingent things but must presuppose a first cause that is self - complete and so ex- ists necessarily . In Hegel the necessary being is not a separate existent but ...
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... things , experienced as experienceable by all and as existing simultaneously , serves as a paradigm of reality , even though other orders of experience are not reducible to it . Existence is an unusual predicate for James ; it means ...
... things , experienced as experienceable by all and as existing simultaneously , serves as a paradigm of reality , even though other orders of experience are not reducible to it . Existence is an unusual predicate for James ; it means ...
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