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    Challenges→If divine simplicity requires God to be identical to His own nature, and natures are abstract property-like entities, then God's mode of existence may be sui generis and not governed by the concrete/abstract distinction that applies to creatures like Socrates.

    Divine simplicity itself relies on the coherence of identity claims (God = His nature), but invoking a special mode of existence to explain this just postpones the problem rather than solving it.

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    God = His nature(as used in philosophy of religion)
    The claim that God and God's fundamental characteristics (what makes God what God is) are literally one and the same thing, not two separate things.
    Postpones the problem(as used in logical argumentation and problem-solving)
    Pushes the difficulty aside temporarily without actually resolving it; like solving a homework problem by moving it to tomorrow instead of actually answering it.
    coherence(Applied uniformly by Bosanquet to both religious and non-religious truth claims.)
    The standard by which truth is assessed — a belief or system of beliefs is true insofar as it forms a consistent, internally unified whole.
    divine simplicity(Central to both Malebranche's theodicy and his epistemology)
    A divine attribute functioning as a side constraint on God's actions, requiring God to act through simple means.

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    identity claims(in logic and metaphysics)
    Statements saying that two things are the same thing, or that something is what it is.
    mode of existence(Clarke's post-1719 terminology, per Thomas 2018)
    A property that can be ascribed both to God and to God's attributes, unlike an attribute, which cannot be ascribed to another attribute.

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