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    It is not the case that God's freedom is not limited by the eternal truths or immutable essences God created.

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    • 1.If God freely wills eternal truths, then prior to that act of will, God deliberates, which requires a prior framework of possibilities to deliberate among.
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    • 2.Any such prior framework of possibilities constitutes a constraint on divine freedom antecedent to God's creative act.
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    • 3.Therefore, the voluntarist account generates an infinite regress or presupposes an uncreated structure of possibility that limits God.
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    • 1.On Leibniz's account, eternal truths concerning essences are grounded in the divine intellect, not the divine will, and are thus necessary features of God's own nature.
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    • 2.What is constitutive of God's own nature cannot coherently be described as freely willed by God without collapsing the distinction between God's nature and God's free acts.
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    • 3.Therefore, God's freedom is indeed constrained by eternal truths, which are necessary features of divine intellect rather than contingent products of divine volition.
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    • 1.Nothing outside of God, not even eternal truths or immutable essences, necessitates that God act in one way or another.
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    • 2.Eternal truths and immutable essences are eternal and immutable only because God, whose existence is necessary and immutable, willed them.
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    • 3.The necessity of eternal truths is consequent to God's act of willing, not antecedent to it.
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