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    Challenges→Concrete occasions of love deserve to count as divinity because they are triply ultimate.

    Axiological ultimacy entails a standard of value that transcends and grounds particular instances, so love-occasions cannot be both the measure and the measured without vicious circularity.

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    • 1.Any standard of value must be independent of what it measures, or else it cannot reliably evaluate instances of that value.
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    • 2.Love-occasions, as particular temporal events, cannot possess the transcendent, unchanging character required of an ultimate standard.
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    • 3.Self-referential standards create epistemic problems: we'd need the standard to validate itself, making objective evaluation impossible.
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    • 1.Transcendence and grounding may not require independence; love could exemplify value while also measuring it without circularity.
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    • 2.The measured/measurer distinction may be a category error; some phenomena constitute their own standards intrinsically.
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    • 3.Vicious circularity requires logical redundancy; self-exemplifying standards can be informative and non-redundant.
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    Key Terms

    Axiological(as used in ethics)
    Relating to values and what makes things good or bad; from the Greek word 'axios' meaning worthy or valuable.
    Transcends(describing the nature of divine reality)
    Goes beyond or surpasses the limits of something—in this case, meaning the divine reality exists beyond the reach of human thoughts and mental states.
    axiological ultimacy(Applied to God in Draper's model because God is the sole mind and minds are the source of value.)
    The property of being the fundamental source of all value that exists.
    grounds(Used in the context of justifying beliefs about the future on the basis of past information)
    Information or evidence that confers rational entitlement to hold a belief or assumption
    ultimacy(Used to describe the subject matter of cross-traditional comparative philosophy of religion)
    What is most real, most valuable, or most fulfilling, as conceived across diverse religious and philosophical traditions
    vicious circularity(Psillos's criterion for distinguishing benign from vicious rule-circular arguments)
    A circularity in which the use of an inferential rule guarantees a positive conclusion about that rule's own reliability, thereby providing no independent justification

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