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(1) that "something exists" is an unconditionally necessary statement; (2) that "something" is to be analyzed in terms of two fundamental contrasts between (a) "concrete" and "abstract" and (b) "divine" tlunsurpassabletl(="unsurpassable") and "nondivine" (= "surpassable"); (3) that these two contrasts in no way involve dualism, but only duality, because "concrete" and "divine" are, in their respective contrasts, the inclusive concepts, "abstract" and "nondivine," the included; and (4) that metaphysics, therefore, is properly pursued as the logical analysis of concreteness, divine as well as nondivine, because concreteness is the inclusive fonn form of "mere being or somethingness," abstractness, its included form. 

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