If damned souls possess a coherent, internally consistent will that embraces separation from God as their highest good, P3's 'illusion-shattering' mechanism has no rational lever to operate on.
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In Christian theology, the state of being cut off from a relationship with God, often considered the deepest aspect of spiritual punishment or damnation.
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
damned souls(as theological reference)
In religious tradition, people believed to be condemned to hell or eternal punishment after death.
highest good(Kant's practical philosophy and the Critique of Judgment)
The concept that sums up the objectives imposed by the free choice of the fundamental principle of morality, encompassing both virtue and the happiness proportional to it, understood as realizable in the natural world.
will(Herbart's practical philosophy; distinguished from mere desire by cognitive determinacy and belief in attainability)
A species of desire marked by determinate cognition and fixing of its object, combined with conviction that the object is attainable