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    An infinite analysis that never terminates cannot ground ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Necessary truths and contingent truths can be distinguished while maintaining that all truths are analytic.

    An infinite analysis that never terminates cannot ground a truth as knowable or demonstrable by any finite mind, including God's complete concept.

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    • 1.Knowledge requires grasping a complete justificatory chain; infinite analysis leaves justification perpetually incomplete.
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    • 2.Finite minds cannot actualize infinite cognitive steps; God's finitude regarding analysis mirrors this limitation.
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    • 3.Demonstrability requires terminating at axioms or self-evident truths; infinite regress prevents reaching any ground.
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    • 1.God's omniscience might involve direct intuitive grasp of infinite truths without sequential analysis or termination.
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    • 2.A truth can be knowable through grasping its infinite structure all-at-once rather than through finite step-by-step proof.
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    • 3.The claim conflates 'demonstrable to finite minds' with 'knowable to any mind,' falsely attributing human limitations universally.
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