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    God himself is plausibly viewed as the truthmaker of 'God... — Carmelics
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    God himself is plausibly viewed as the truthmaker of 'God is omniscient' and like essential predications.

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    • 1.A truthmaker of a truth t is an entity whose existence broadly logically necessitates the truth of t.
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    • 2.In every possible world in which God exists, the essential predication 'God is omniscient' is true.
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    • 1.Broad logical necessitation is insufficient for truthmaking; an entity must also be an appropriate ontological ground, not merely a necessary correlate.
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    • 2.The number 7 exists necessarily and co-exists with God necessarily, yet 7 is not the truthmaker of 'God is omniscient', so mere necessary co-existence cannot ground truthmaking.
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    • 3.God's existence necessitating 'God is omniscient' may reflect only de dicto necessity about the name 'God', not a genuine ontological grounding relation.
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    • 1.Truthmakers must be distinct from the truths they ground; God's existence and God's omniscience are not clearly distinct enough to sustain this grounding relation.
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    • 2.If God just is his omniscience (per divine simplicity), the claim that God makes 'God is omniscient' true becomes viciously circular, not explanatory.
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    P* is to be understood by contrast to a theory of predication according to which every true predication of the form ‘a is F’ is to be explained in terms of an individual’s exemplifying of a property. Now consider the essential predication, ‘God is omniscient.’ Given that a truthmaker of a truth t is an entity whose existence broadly logically necessitates the truth of t, God himself is plausibly viewed as the truthmaker of ‘God is omniscient’ and like essential predications. For in every possible world in which God exists, these essential predications (or the propositions they express) are tru...

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