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    It is not the case that God does not arrive at knowledge by deducing conclusions from premises.

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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