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Therefore, "there is no such thing as a significant premise that does not imply existence in some form. All thought occurs in a real experience, and that experience has given to it a real world (even in dreams). We cannot get out of reality as such and then seek to regain contact with it. We are always thinking existence and always have it. The only question is, in what form?" ("John Hick on Logical and Ontological Necessity": 158). "[L]ogical modalities, and by implication, all concepts whatever, have essential reference to creativity or becoming," in every case of which "classical determinism is in some way and degree violated, and an element ofchance of chance or randomness enters because becoming in principle is free creation" (162 f).

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