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    God does not arrive at knowledge by deducing conclusions ... — Carmelics
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    God does not arrive at knowledge by deducing conclusions from premises.

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    • 1.God's knowledge is not discursive.
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    • 2.Claiming that God's knowledge is not discursive means, among other things, that God does not derive his knowledge by deducing conclusions from other things that he knows.
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    • 1.Leibniz argued that God's knowledge of possibles involves perceiving logical relations between essences, which is structurally inferential.
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    • 2.If God knows necessary truths by grasping their logical necessity, this grasping presupposes discernment of entailment relations between propositions.
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    • 3.A being that perceives entailment relations without 'deducing' differs only psychologically, not epistemically, from one that deduces.
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    • 1.Aquinas held that God knows all things through knowing His own essence, yet He also knows how creatures participate in that essence via distinct rationes.
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    • 2.Knowing creatures via distinct rationes requires grasping mediating relations between divine essence and finite modes, which is inferential in structure.
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    • 3.If the supporting argument's denial of discursive knowledge is stipulative rather than substantive, it resolves the problem by definition, not by genuine explanation.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    A second thing that Aquinas meant by claiming that God’s knowledge is not discursive is that God does not derive his knowledge by deducing conclusions from other things that he knows. Of course the propositions God knows stand in logical relations with each other, and that includes standing in the relation of premisses to valid conclusion. Aquinas’s claim, however, is that God does not arrive at a conclusion by deducing it from premisses. In contrast, however, Mavrodes (1988), recognizing the many logical relations in which propositions stand to one another, conjectures that all of God’s knowl...

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