 What exists necessarily can have no limits or imperfections. For what is limited could have had different limits, and so the limited has only contingent existence. Finally, and for our purposes most importantly, a necessary being does not possess its properties, as other things do, by participation in those properties as something distinct from it. Suppose, for example, God were to be omnipresent by existing in every part of space, then we could conceive of infinite space without him. But if space were distinct from him we would need an explanation of why he existed in all of it, rather than in some part, or in none. The same, Price says, is true of God’s relation to all his attributes, which he must possess