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    DDS requires that God's essence and existence are identic... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The doctrine of divine simplicity (DDS) provides a solution to the Euthyphro dilemma.

    DDS requires that God's essence and existence are identical, but this collapses the distinction between what God is and that God is, making divine necessary existence unintelligible.

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    DDS(as used in philosophy of religion)
    An abbreviation for 'Divine Desire Satisfaction'—a philosophical theory about how God's commands work and what makes them binding on us.
    Necessary existence(Contrasted with contingent existence in discussion of God's mode of being)
    Existence that is not contingent; the being does not just happen to exist or not exist.
    distinction(One of the two components of Arendtian plurality)
    The aspect of plurality by which no two human beings are ever interchangeable, each being endowed with a unique biography and perspective on the world
    essence(Medieval realist metaphysics)
    The defining nature of a species, held by some to be distinct from and capable of surviving the destruction of all individual members of that species
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    (Kant's analysis in the Critique of Pure Reason as applied to the ontological argument)
    Not a real predicate or positive determination; it does not add to or enlarge the concept of a subject.
    identical(whether the concept of 'human' and the concept of 'animal' are the same)
    Exactly the same as something else, not just similar but truly one and the same thing.
    unintelligible(as describing what would happen to Baumgarten's theory without this distinction)
    Impossible to understand or make sense of; completely unclear or contradictory.

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