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What Must There Be To Account For Being?, Dillon T. Mccrea
What Must There Be To Account For Being?, Dillon T. Mccrea
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
The purpose of this essay is to identify what I consider to be core philosophical arguments supporting the thesis that being subsists. The design of the thesis is as follows: First, I will attempt to identify arguments supporting the claim that we posit the universe and all of its content in relation to the question of being. Second, I will identify arguments supporting the claim that it is incoherent to claim that being is merely a function of the existence of individual entities, and that all entities share being in common. Third, I will identify arguments supporting the claim that …