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    It is not the case that God himself is plausibly viewed as the truthmaker of 'God is omniscient' and like essential predications.

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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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    • 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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