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Furthermore, if his opponents say, “We know by necessity that this is impossible”—indeed, they have even said, “What the negationists claim to be the truth by which the Necessary Existent must be described cannot exist; its impossibility is known by rational necessity.” They even say, “We know by rational necessity that the Lord of the worlds is above the world. Thus, we know by rational necessity the necessity of what he claimed, through reasoning, to be impossible, and the impossibility of what he claimed, through reasoning, to be possible.”

They may also say, “We know through our innate disposition and by necessity that an existent—or an existent that is not an attribute of something else, or the Necessary Existent—can only be self-subsisting, such that nothing else can be where it is. It is not a figment or phantom in the mind, but something existent, possessing a reality and established existence that hearts recognize as such, even if the opponent calls this occupying space, being corporeal, or the like. We know by necessity and through our innate disposition that whatever is not like this can only be nonexistent, just as we know