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    It is not the case that Certain knowledge requires divine 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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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