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    A divine mind would itself require grounding in necessary... — Carmelics
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    Supports→A necessary and eternal divine mind is not required to ground necessary truths

    A divine mind would itself require grounding in necessary truths (e.g., logical laws governing its own coherence), making God explanatorily posterior, not prior, to necessity.

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    • 1.Logical laws (non-contradiction, identity) appear to constrain all possible minds, including hypothetical divine ones, making them conceptually prior.
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    • 2.If God's thoughts must be coherent and non-contradictory to be divine, then coherence standards exist independently of God's will.
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    • 3.Explanatory priority follows dependence: what something depends on for its nature explains it; God depends on logical consistency for rationality.
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    • 1.Logical laws might be constituents of God's nature rather than external constraints, making them dependent on God, not independent necessities.
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    • 2.A divine mind could ground logical truths by being the only possible coherent exemplar of reason itself, reversing the explanatory direction.
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    • 3.Necessity and divinity may be coextensive rather than hierarchical: God simply is the ground of all necessity, including logical necessity, by identity.
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