First: All beings exist and all which exists is a being. The category of "all beings" represents the sum total of things which exist, physical or otherwise. We can say of everything in this category, and the category itself that a) x is x and b) x is not (not x). Everything is identical to itself, and everything is not that which is not itself. In practical terms, this means that an apple, say, is an apple, but it is also not that which it not an apple: it has a sort of conceptual boundary. Inside this conceptual boundary are apples, and outside, non-apples. A thing which exists is minimally defined having such a conceptual boundary: it is what it is, and it is not what it is not. Nothing is what it is not, or is not what it is.
It is no problem that God is identical to him/her/itself. This does not contradict the idea that God is unlimited. But that God is not what he/she/it is not does indeed contradict the idea that he/she/it is unlimited. This means MORE COMING...
2007-11-27
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