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    Cognitive capability is a primary good of rational nature... — Carmelics
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    Supports→If the above is true, a person in Hell has a whole loss of their cognitive capabiliites

    Cognitive capability is a primary good of rational nature, so maximal privation in Hell entails its complete, not partial, loss.

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    • 1.Rational nature's essential function is cognition; deprivation of essentials means deprivation of what defines that nature.
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    • 2.Maximal privation logically entails loss of all goods characteristic of a kind, not merely some goods of that kind.
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    • 3.Partial cognitive loss would preserve some rational agency, contradicting the state of complete separation from divine goodness.
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    • 1.Complete cognitive loss would eliminate the capacity for awareness of punishment itself, making Hell's retributive purpose incoherent.
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    • 2.Rational beings retain cognitive function even in states of extreme deprivation; loss of good does not equal loss of capacity itself.
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    • 3.Maximal privation of goods need not entail privation of the faculties that perceive their absence—these are distinct categories.
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