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    Challenges→God lacks parts (both spatial/temporal and metaphysical).

    A being without any metaphysical distinctions—such as between potentiality and act—cannot coherently be said to know, will, or create contingent things differently than necessary ones.

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    Act (or Actuality)(as a contrast to potentiality in metaphysics)
    Something as it actually exists or is right now, in its current state; the opposite of what it merely could become.
    Coherently(as describing how these functions work together)
    In a way that is logically consistent and doesn't contradict itself.
    Necessary(ontological distinction in Mulla Sadra's metaphysics)
    The principle, God; pure existence without essence, quality or property that undergoes change or motion
    Potentiality(Used in the Aristotelian sense; Fârâbî argues the First Being has no potentiality.)
    The capacity of a being to possess a predicate or property it does not currently possess by its essence, requiring actualization by something external that already has that property.
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    (De Interpretatione 12–13)
    Equated with 'possible'; on the two-sided interpretation, contingency excludes necessity (possibility implies non-necessity).
    metaphysical(Ayer's Logical Positivist usage)
    Language that purports to refer beyond the physical world and lacks empirical consequences, which Ayer classifies as not literally significant

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