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    It is not the case that Epistemic access to actualized states of affairs grounds possibility claims, but divine simplicity's conjunction with divine personhood is not observationally accessible in any analogous sense.

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    • 1.Actualized states don't exhaust possibility; necessary truths about logic and mathematics lack empirical grounding yet warrant claims.
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    • 2.Non-observational accessibility isn't disqualifying; we ground abstract metaphysical claims through coherence and explanatory power.
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    • 3.Divine simplicity and personhood may both be coherent through analogical language; lack of direct access doesn't entail incoherence.
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    • 1.Possibility claims require grounding in actual cases; abstract theorizing without empirical anchors risks incoherence.
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    • 2.Divine simplicity and personhood make incompatible metaphysical demands that lack the observational warrant we need to endorse them.
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    • 3.Epistemic standards for accepting metaphysical claims should be uniform; unfalsifiable theological claims fail this standard.
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