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18. So, this interlocking system of ideas exists in at least one necessarily existing intellect. 19. A necessarily existing intellect would be purely actual. 20. There cannot be more than one thing that is purely actual. 21. So, there cannot be more than one necessarily existing intellect. 22. An intellect in which the interlocking system of ideas in question existed would be conceptually omniscient. 23. So, the one necessarily existing intellect is conceptually omniscient. 24. If this one necessarily existing intellect were not also omniscient in the stronger sense that it knows all contingent truths, then it would have unrealized potential and thus not be purely actual. 25. So, it is also omniscient in this stronger sense. 26. What is purely actual must also be omnipotent, fully good, immutable, immaterial, incorporeal, and eternal. 27. So, there is exactly one necessarily existing intellect, which is purely actual, omniscient, omnipotent, fully good, immutable, immaterial, incorporeal, and eternal. 28. But for there to be such a thing is just what it is for God to exist. 29. So, God exists.
Β€γThe Thomistic Proof for the Existence of God:
Part 1:
1. For any of the things we know from experience (stones, trees, dogs, human beings, etc.), there is a distinction to be drawn between its essence and its existence. 2. If this were not a real distinction a distinction between aspects of reality itself and not merely between ways of thinking or talking about reality-then we could know whether or not a thing exists simply by knowing its essence. 3. But we cannot know whether or not a thing exists simply by knowing its essence. 4. If it were not a real distinction, then the things we know from experience would exist in a necessary way rather than in a merely contingent way. 5. But in fact they exist in a merely contingent way, and not in a necessary way. 6. If there could in principle be more than one thing the essence of which is identical to its existence, then two or more such things would be distinguishable in the way that species of the same genus are distinguished, or members of the same species are distinguished, or in some other way. 7. But they cannot be distinguished in any of these ways. 8. So, there could not in principle be more than one thing the essence of which is identical to its existence. 9. So, for any of the things we know from experience, if the distinction between its essence and its existence were not a real distinction, then there could not in principle be more than one of them. 10. But in fact, for each of the things we know from experience, there is, or could be, more than one of them. 11. So, for each of the things we know from experience, the distinction between its essence and its existence is a real distinction. 12. For anything the essence of which is really distinct from its existence, its existence must be imparted to it either by itself or by some cause distinct from it. 13. But if it imparted existence to itself, it would be the cause of itself. 14. Nothing can be the cause of itself. 15. So, it cannot impart existence to itself. 16. So, for anything the essence of which is really distinct from its existence, its existence must be imparted to it by some cause distinct from it. 17. Since its essence and existence remain really distinct at every moment at which it exists, including here and now, its existence must be imparted to it by some cause distinct from it at every moment at which it exists, including here and now. 18. So, for each of the things we know from experience, its existence must be imparted to it by some cause distinct from it at every moment at which it exists, including here and now. 19. Either this cause is itself something the essence of which is distinct from its existence, or it is something whose essence and existence are identical, something that just is subsistent existence itself.
Β€γThe Thomistic Proof for the Existence of God:
18. So, this interlocking system of ideas exists in at least one necessarily existing intellect. 19. A necessarily existing intellect would be purely actual. 20. There cannot be more than one thing that is purely actual. 21. So, there cannot be more than one necessarily existing intellect. 22. An intellect in which the interlocking system of ideas in question existed would be conceptually omniscient. 23. So, the one necessarily existing intellect is conceptually omniscient. 24. If this one necessarily existing intellect were not also omniscient in the stronger sense that it knows all contingent truths, then it would have unrealized potential and thus not be purely actual. 25. So, it is also omniscient in this stronger sense. 26. What is purely actual must also be omnipotent, fully good, immutable, immaterial, incorporeal, and eternal. 27. So, there is exactly one necessarily existing intellect, which is purely actual, omniscient, omnipotent, fully good, immutable, immaterial, incorporeal, and eternal. 28. But for there to be such a thing is just what it is for God to exist. 29. So, God exists.
Β€γThe Thomistic Proof for the Existence of God:
Part 1:
1. For any of the things we know from experience (stones, trees, dogs, human beings, etc.), there is a distinction to be drawn between its essence and its existence. 2. If this were not a real distinction a distinction between aspects of reality itself and not merely between ways of thinking or talking about reality-then we could know whether or not a thing exists simply by knowing its essence. 3. But we cannot know whether or not a thing exists simply by knowing its essence. 4. If it were not a real distinction, then the things we know from experience would exist in a necessary way rather than in a merely contingent way. 5. But in fact they exist in a merely contingent way, and not in a necessary way. 6. If there could in principle be more than one thing the essence of which is identical to its existence, then two or more such things would be distinguishable in the way that species of the same genus are distinguished, or members of the same species are distinguished, or in some other way. 7. But they cannot be distinguished in any of these ways. 8. So, there could not in principle be more than one thing the essence of which is identical to its existence. 9. So, for any of the things we know from experience, if the distinction between its essence and its existence were not a real distinction, then there could not in principle be more than one of them. 10. But in fact, for each of the things we know from experience, there is, or could be, more than one of them. 11. So, for each of the things we know from experience, the distinction between its essence and its existence is a real distinction. 12. For anything the essence of which is really distinct from its existence, its existence must be imparted to it either by itself or by some cause distinct from it. 13. But if it imparted existence to itself, it would be the cause of itself. 14. Nothing can be the cause of itself. 15. So, it cannot impart existence to itself. 16. So, for anything the essence of which is really distinct from its existence, its existence must be imparted to it by some cause distinct from it. 17. Since its essence and existence remain really distinct at every moment at which it exists, including here and now, its existence must be imparted to it by some cause distinct from it at every moment at which it exists, including here and now. 18. So, for each of the things we know from experience, its existence must be imparted to it by some cause distinct from it at every moment at which it exists, including here and now. 19. Either this cause is itself something the essence of which is distinct from its existence, or it is something whose essence and existence are identical, something that just is subsistent existence itself.
Β€γThe Thomistic Proof for the Existence of God:
Part 2:
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