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    God is the ultimate ground of criteria of identity for al... — Carmelics
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    God is the ultimate ground of criteria of identity for all things

    Divine AttributesPersonal Identity
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    • 1.Species (kinds or natures) are determined by the character of the spatio-temporal world
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    • 2.God determines every feature of the spatio-temporal world
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    • 3.A thing's criteria of identity are determined by its nature or kind
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    • 1.Locke argued that personal identity is constituted by psychological continuity of consciousness, a relation that holds independently of any divine determination.
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    • 2.If psychological continuity is itself the criterion of personal identity, then God's sustaining activity is at most causally enabling, not constitutively grounding, of that criterion.
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    • 3.A cause that merely enables a criterion to operate is not the same as the ultimate ground that determines what the criterion is.
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    • 1.Criteria of identity for mathematical objects (sets, numbers) are fixed by logical necessity, not by features of the spatio-temporal world.
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    • 2.If identity criteria for at least some entities are grounded in logical necessity rather than divine will, God cannot be the ultimate ground of all criteria of identity.
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    God determines criteria of identity88%A thing's criteria of identity are determined by its nature or kind86%The identity in God of essence and existence, possibility and actualit...85%Kinds or natures determine criteria of identity84%

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    God's sovereignty also extends to criteria of identity. “Species” (kinds or natures) are the ways we classify things. But our classifications depend on our needs and interests, and the character of the world we live in. Hence, in determining every feature of the spatio-temporal world, God has determined how things will be classified, that is, what counts as a “species” or kind. Since a thing's criteria of identity are determined by its nature or kind, God is their ultimate ground. In short, laws
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