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    It is not the case that A perfect being could be omniscient without knowing all truths.

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    • 1.Anselm's conception of God as 'that than which nothing greater can be conceived' entails no cognitive limitation whatsoever.
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    • 2.Any being lacking knowledge of some truth is conceivably surpassable by a being possessing that truth, violating the definition of perfection.
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    • 3.Therefore, omniscience as total truth-knowledge is analytically contained in perfect being theology, not merely one attribute among tradeable others.
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    • 1.Aquinas argues in Summa Theologiae I.14 that God's intellect and essence are identical, making divine knowledge coextensive with all being itself.
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    • 2.If divine knowledge were less than total, God's essence would be metaphysically incomplete, contradicting divine simplicity and aseity.
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    • 3.The trade-off model presupposes attributes are separable modules, which classical theism's doctrine of divine simplicity explicitly rejects.
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    • 1.A stronger version of perfect being theology holds that God has a maximally consistent set of the divine attributes of knowledge, power, and benevolence.
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    • 2.Knowing all truths might reduce the amount of power or benevolence the being could possess.
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