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    Supports→On a Plantinga-style approach, God cannot be identical with existence.

    Given that the exemplification relation is irreflexive and asymmetrical, nothing can be identical with a property it exemplifies.

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    'Exemplifies' picks out a two-term irreflexive and asymmetrical relation.For Plantinga, existence is a first-level property that everything exemplifies.On a Plantinga-style approach, God cannot be identical with existence.

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    It is easy to see that Plantinga-style objections will not appear decisive to those who reject his metaphysical framework. Indeed, Plantinga’s accusations of category mistake may strike students of the main medieval proponents of DDS as so many misunderstandings based on a foisting of a foreign framework on their ideas. Plantinga, along with many other philosophers, thinks of individuals and properties as belonging to disjoint categories connected by an external relation of exemplification. Individuals are causally efficacious concreta whereas properties are causally impotent abstracta. Such a...

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