According to Demea, "We must, therefore, have recourse to a ________________ Being, who carries the reason of his existence in himself, and who cannot be supposed not to exist, without an express contradiction. There is, consequently, such a Being; that is, there is a Deity."
A) transcendently fertile
B) non-material reductive
C) substantially efficient
D) necessarily existent

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Demea argues that there must be a necessarily existent Being, one whose reason for existing is contained within itself and who cannot be imagined as not existing without contradiction. This is a classic argument for the existence of God as a necessary being.

According to Demea, "We Must, Therefore, Have Recourse to a ________________