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It is not the case that If the divine mind is wholly incomprehensible, all positive theological claims—including claims about God's goodness or power—become semantically vacuous.
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Incomprehensibility of essence ≠ incomprehensibility of all attributes; we may understand relational properties without grasping inner nature.
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Negative theology shows meaningful discourse about God possible via negation and analogy without claiming full conceptual grasp.
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Semantical vacuity requires inability to distinguish truth from falsehood; mystery alone permits meaningful, justified affirmations and denials.
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Meaning requires some grasp of referent's properties; total incomprehensibility precludes this grasp entirely.
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Positive claims assert determinate properties; if divine mind transcends all determination, such claims are false or meaningless.
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We cannot coherently apply human concepts like 'goodness' to wholly transcendent beings without vacuity or equivocation.
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