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    It is not the case that If the above is true, a person in Hell has a whole loss of their cognitive capabiliites

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    Reasons For

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    • Having the full cognitive loss of sin does not necessarially imply complete cognitive loss
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • If the above is true, the logic is invalid
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Aquinas held that sin disorders the intellect such that persistent unrepented sin progressively corrupts rational faculty toward its terminus.
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    • 2.A completed, eternal state of sin—as Hell represents—logically entails the terminal endpoint of that cognitive corruption, not a partial degree.
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    • 3.The eternal fixity of Hell (as defended by Anselm's infinite consequence doctrine) means no partial cognitive state persists; only the final, complete condition obtains.
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    Reason against 2 of 2
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    • 1.Augustine's deprivation theory holds that evil is the absence of good, and Hell represents maximal privation of the goods constitutive of rational personhood.
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    • 2.Cognitive capability is a primary good of rational nature, so maximal privation in Hell entails its complete, not partial, loss.
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