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    If human perception requires a divine intermediary, the c... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→When a human being perceives a material thing, what is directly seen is not the material thing itself but its idea in God

    If human perception requires a divine intermediary, the causal connection between the material world and human experience becomes entirely unintelligible.

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    • 1.Direct causal chains require intelligible mechanisms; divine intermediaries introduce unexplainable gaps in physical causation.
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    • 2.If perception depends on non-physical mediation, we cannot apply empirical methods to verify or understand the causal pathway.
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    • 3.Intelligibility requires reducing phenomena to knowable principles; divine intermediaries resist such reduction by definition.
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    • 1.Many intelligible causal systems invoke intermediate entities (neurons, photons); divine intermediaries could function similarly.
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    • 2.Unintelligibility may reflect human cognitive limits, not actual causal opacity; we once found atoms unintelligible too.
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    • 3.The claim conflates epistemic access with metaphysical coherence; a causal connection can exist without being fully intelligible to us.
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