The principle of Existential Necessity follows from two other Principles: The Principle of Existence (no. 1) and the Principle of Causality (no. 5).
Since something undeniably exists (no. 1), either is is (a) all contingent or (b) all necessary or (c) some is necessary and some is contingent.
But both (b) and (c) acknowledge a Necessary Being, and (a) is logically impossible, being contrary to the self-evident principle no.5. For if all being not to exist. That is, a state of total nothingness is possible. But something now undeniably exists (e.g, I do), as was demonstrated in premise no. . And nothing cannot cause something (no.5). Therefore, it is not possible (i.e., it is possible) for there to have been a state of total nothingness. But if it is impossible for nothing to exist (since something does exist), then something necessarily exists (i.e., a Necessary Being does exist).
To put it another way, if something exists and if nothing cannot cause something, then it follows that something must exist necessarily. For if something did not necessarily exist, then nothing would have caused the something that did exist. Since it is impossible for nothing to cause something, then it is necessary for something to always been.
This Necessary Being is also eternal, uncaused, unchanging, unlimited and one, since a Necessary Being cannot come to be, be caused by another, undergo change, be limited by any possibility of what it could be (a Necessary Being has no possibility to be other than it is) or to be more than one Being (since there cannot be two infinite beings).
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