So
far, your beliefs entail or support the existence of a necessarily existent
thing, N, that isn’t itself merely an abstract
thing (such as an idea or an attribute). It is not merely abstract since it
contains power—the ability to cause
change. Let’s call something that has power a concrete thing.
If a
concrete thing has an attribute A, it either has that attribute to a maximal
degree or to a non-maximal degree. For example, N has the attribute of having power either to a maximal degree
or to a non-maximal degree. If the degree is non-maximal, then it is possible (logically possible) for there to
be a thing that has more power than
N. On the other hand, if the degree is maximal,
then it is not possible for there to be a thing that has more power.
If a concrete thing has an attribute to a non-maximal degree, then
would it, in general, be possible for it to increase
or decrease at all in the degree to
which it has that attribute?