nature. How can the foundation be self-sufficient by nature? Here is how: the foundation has a necessary nature; it has no potential not to exist. This foundation, then, has a special nature that explains how it can exist without depending on anything. We now have two beams that support our steps. Both beams independently support the same result: in order for there to be a world, any world, there must be an independent foundation underlying everything else. One of the deepest