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    Certain knowledge requires divine illumination. — Carmelics
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    Certain knowledge requires divine illumination.

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    • 1.Certain knowledge requires steadfast unchangeability.
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    • 2.Steadfast unchangeability can be found only in the divine mind.
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    • 3.Humans have access to the divine mind only through illumination.
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    • 1.Mathematical and logical truths are knowable through rational intuition of necessary relations between concepts, without appeal to any divine source.
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    • 2.Kant's Critique demonstrates that synthetic a priori knowledge arises from the structure of human cognition itself, not from external illumination.
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    • 3.If human reason alone generates the conditions for certain knowledge, divine illumination is explanatorily redundant, not necessary.
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    • 1.Augustine's illumination doctrine conflates the ontological ground of truth with the epistemological mechanism by which humans come to know it.
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    • 2.Aquinas argued that God implants an active intellect in humans at creation, making ongoing divine illumination unnecessary for each act of knowing.
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    • 3.If the capacity for certain knowledge is a permanent natural endowment rather than a repeated divine intervention, the claim collapses into naturalism.
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    Divine AttributesTruth & Knowledge

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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    Certain knowledge requires steadfast unchangeability. Since that can be found only in the divine mind, and since we have access to the divine mind only through illumination, certain knowledge requires illumination.
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