Everything the existence of which is other than its own nature has existence from another

Negation: Not everything the existence of which is other than its own nature has existence from another 0 0 0

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Argument #bc856a31 1 0 2

If it is true that...

Everything the existence of which is other than its own nature has existence from another 1 0 2

and

There is something that is the cause of existing in all things in that this thing is existence only 1 0 2

Then it must be true that...

The intelligences are form and existence and have existence from the first being, which is existence alone, and this is the first cause, which is God 1 0 2

Argument #fc47cb27 1 0 2

If it is true that...

Everything that pertains to a thing either is caused by the principles of its own nature or comes from some extrinsic principle 1 0 2

and

Everything the existence of which is other than its own nature has existence from another 1 0 2

Then it must be true that...

There is something that is the cause of existing in all things in that this thing is existence only 1 0 2

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St Thomas Aquinas/On Being and Essence

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Whatever begins to exist is caused to begin to exist by something else already existing 1 0 1 Every necessary being either has its necessity caused by another, or has its necessity itself 0 0 1 The nature considered absolutely abstracts from every existence, though it does not exclude the existence of anything either 1 0 2 Existence is something other than the essence or quiddity, unless there is something whose quiddity is its very own existence 1 0 2 In every other thing, the thing's existence is one thing, and its essence or quiddity or nature or form is another 1 0 2 Everything that pertains to a thing either is caused by the principles of its own nature or comes from some extrinsic principle 1 0 2 There is something that is the cause of existing in all things in that this thing is existence only 1 0 2 Existence received from God allows substances to subsist in the nature of things 1 0 2 In created intellectual substances, existence is other than essence 1 0 2 What brought nature into existence is not natural, it must be supernatural 1 0 2