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    It is not the case that Ideas must exist in God

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    Reasons For

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    Reason for 1 of 2
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    • 1.Ideas can be understood as abstract objects existing in a third realm independent of any mind, as Frege's Platonism maintains.
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    • 2.Locating ideas in a divine mind conflates the ontological status of abstract objects with psychological states of a personal God.
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    • 3.A mind-independent realm of abstract entities accounts for universality and necessity without requiring theological commitments.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Kant's Copernican revolution shows that necessary and universal structure originates in the cognitive faculties of finite minds, not in a divine intellect.
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    • 2.The categories of the understanding impose necessity on experience without those categories needing to exist in any being beyond the human subject.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Ideas cannot be modes of the finite human mind
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    • 2.Ideas must exist in some being capable of containing universal, necessary, and infinite objects
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    • 3.The only being in which universal, necessary, and infinite ideas could exist is God
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