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    It is not the case that God cannot be divisible

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    Reasons For

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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