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Necessity and contingency

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Something can be necessary in itself or necessary through another. Does explaining contingent things require a necessary being?

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Guided course · Module 6 · Lesson 30
What would a necessary being be?
Avicenna separates what a thing is from whether it exists, and argues that explaining contingent things may require a being necessary in itself. How far does that conclusion reach?