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    Challenges→Each divine idea is really infinite.

    Divine ideas function as intentional objects of divine cognition, and intentional objects derive their properties from their representational content, not from the mental act that contains them.

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    Key Terms

    Divine Ideas(Whewell's theological foundation for the empirical content of necessary truths)
    Certain ideas of God in accordance with which He created all objects and events in the universe.
    Divine cognition(Chatton's threefold characterization of how God cognizes)
    A mode of awareness that is (1) non-judgmental and non-voluntaristic, (2) not necessarily of determinate existents, and (3) complete, non-discursive, and direct
    Intentional objects(Earliest Stoic philosophy of mind)
    Things that serve as the objects of thought and other mental states, which on the earliest Stoic view need not exist or obtain
    Mental act(as used in philosophy of mind)
    The actual process of thinking, perceiving, or believing that happens in a mind, as opposed to what the thought is about.
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