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    It is not the case that God is the ultimate ground of criteria of identity for all things

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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