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    Challenges→Not every qua-object of God is a divine Person.

    If every divine attribute is identity-constitutive, then no qua-object of God is genuinely distinct from God, collapsing the framework before the Person/non-Person distinction can be drawn.

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    Collapsing the framework(logic and metaphysics)
    Breaking down or destroying a system of ideas so completely that the categories or distinctions it relies on no longer work.
    Divine attribute(theology and philosophy of religion)
    A quality or characteristic that belongs to God, like being all-powerful, all-knowing, or eternal.
    Genuinely distinct(how finite modes can be from each other in Spinoza's system)
    Really and truly different in an important way, not just appearing different on the surface.
    Identity-constitutive(as used in metaphysics)
    Something that actually makes up who you are or is essential to your identity, rather than being separate from it.
    Person/non-Person distinction(metaphysics and philosophy of mind)

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    The philosophical division between things that are persons (like God or humans, with consciousness and agency) and things that are not persons (like objects or abstract concepts).
    qua-object(Koons's account, following Asher and Fine)
    An intentional object picked out by a qua-modified noun phrase, consisting of tropes or accidents that are metaphysical parts of a base object.

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