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    It is not the case that If complex ideas like God's can be assembled from simpler experiential components via reflection and amplification, the inference from objective to formal reality collapses into a psychological genetic account.

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    • 1.Infinite amplification of finite components cannot yield genuine infinity; the psychological account fails to account for the qualitative gap.
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    • 2.Even if an idea's psychological genesis is complete, this doesn't entail that its formal cause (what grounds its truth-conditions) is merely psychological.
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    • 3.The inference from 'assembled from simpler parts' to 'has no objective source' commits composition fallacy; parts' origins don't determine the whole's.
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    • 1.Locke showed how complex ideas like 'unicorn' arise from combining simple ideas; God could follow the same compositional pattern via amplification.
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    • 2.If formal reality (objective existence) requires a non-psychological source, but the idea itself traces entirely to mental operations, the distinction becomes explanatorily empty.
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    • 3.Psychological genesis explains the *origin* of an idea; origin explains why we shouldn't infer the idea's source to a transcendent object.
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