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    If each perfection is identical to God, then each perfect... — Carmelics
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    Supports→The perfections constitutive of the divine nature are identical with one another.

    If each perfection is identical to God, then each perfection is identical to every other one (by transitivity of identity).

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    The foregoing may explain how it is conceivable without obvious incoherence that God and his nature and God and his existence be identical, but how does it answer the second question? How does it explain the conceivability without obvious incoherence of the identity of the divine attributes with each other? If each attribute is identical to God, then each attribute is identical to each other by the Transitivity of Identity. For example, if God = omniscience, and God = omnipotence, then omniscience = omnipotence. But how could each attribute be identical to God? If we can understand how each at...

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