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    God cannot be divisible — Carmelics
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    God cannot be divisible

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    • 1.If God were divisible, God would not be infinite
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    • 2.God is infinite
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    • 1.Plotinus and the Neoplatonic tradition held that the One emanates and differentiates internally while remaining ontologically unified.
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    • 2.A being can be functionally or modally divisible—admitting real internal distinctions—without being divisible into separable, independent substances.
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    • 3.Therefore, divine divisibility into modes or attributes, as Spinoza himself describes, is compatible with God remaining a single infinite substance.
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    • 1.Infinity admits of degrees and kinds: Cantor's transfinite mathematics shows infinite wholes can be divided into infinite proper parts.
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    • 2.If an infinite substance can be partitioned into infinite parts, divisibility does not entail finitude, undermining P1.
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    Spinoza is aware that this will be received with great resistance. The possible objection he imagines is that since Extension is divisible by its very nature then, if Extension were an attribute of God, God would be divisible. God, of course, cannot be divisible, for then he would not be infinite. In the Scholium to 1P15 he shows the ensuing contradictions if one holds Extension to be by its very nature divisible. It is important for him to show that Extension cannot imply divisibility in answer
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