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    Challenges→Rational beings participate in divine providence in a more excellent way than non-rational beings.

    If rational cognition is itself a natural process fully explicable within the causal order, then the intellect adds no qualitatively superior relation to divine ordering beyond what any natural inclination already instantiates.

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    Causal order(as the framework within which freedom operates)
    The chain of cause-and-effect that governs events in the physical world, where one thing causes another to happen.
    divine ordering(the theological framework being discussed)
    The idea that God or a higher power has organized and arranged how the universe works according to a plan or purpose.
    explicable(as used in describing what a theory can or cannot explain)
    Able to be explained or accounted for by a theory or reason.
    instantiates(as used in metaphysics)
    To instantiate means to be a specific example or instance of something more general. For example, a red apple instantiates the property 'redness.'
    intellect(Simon's Aristotelian account of the soul)

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    The faculty of the rational soul whereby it thinks; it is immaterial, passive, and separate.
    natural inclination(compared to what the intellect might add)
    An inborn tendency or drive that something has by nature—like how water naturally flows downhill.
    natural process(describing how cognition might work)
    Something that happens in the physical world following the regular rules of nature, without anything supernatural involved.
    qualitatively superior(describing a potential special quality the intellect might have)
    Different in a way that makes it fundamentally better or higher in kind, not just in degree or amount.
    rational cognition(the subject of the statement)
    The ability to understand and know things through logical thinking and reason, rather than just through feelings or instinct.

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