Philosophy and Logic

Human existence does not lie outside God’s existence, but this does not mean that Creator and creation are one. The light of a candle and the sun’s light are alike in meaning, but they are not one and the same: both are created by God, and each has its own distinct identity.

Treating essences as conceptual raises the question of whether reason, itself a conceptual construct, can confer conceptual status. To give identity to nothingness is to deprive being of its identity—and this does not undermine the unity of being.