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    If a coherent monotheistic tradition can maintain that the divine nature is both one and internally differentiated, then pure undifferentiated unity is not a necessary condition for being God.

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    Internally differentiated(describing whether God can have different aspects or qualities)
    Having distinct or different parts within itself; not completely uniform or the same throughout.
    Monotheistic tradition(as the subject being analyzed in the statement)
    A religion or belief system centered on the worship of one God, like Christianity, Islam, or Judaism.
    Undifferentiated unity(describing a conception of God as absolutely simple and uniform)
    Complete oneness with no distinctions or separate parts within it; total sameness.
    coherent(de Finetti's usage in the context of the Dutch Book argument for probabilism)
    A subject is coherent if their unconditional degrees of belief do not permit a Dutch Book (a guaranteed loss through a combination of bets) to be made against them

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    divine nature(Distinguishes the divine nature from the three persons, which are compound substances)
    A reality that is both a property and a simple (non-compound) substance, shared as the matter-constituent in each of the three divine persons
    necessary condition(Counterfactual analysis of causation; Mackie 1965, 1974)
    A condition C is necessary for event E if E would not have occurred in the absence of C

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