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    Challenges→God cannot be a member of any extant ontological category.

    If univocity of being is coherent, then the inference from absolute sovereignty to absolute categorical transcendence fails, since creating the instances of a category does not require standing outside the category entirely.

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    Absolute sovereignty(theology/metaphysics)
    Complete, unlimited power with no restrictions or constraints; in theology, often refers to God's total power.
    Categorical transcendence(metaphysics)
    The quality of being completely outside of or beyond all categories or classifications that normally apply to things.
    Univocity of being(metaphysics)
    The idea that the word 'being' or 'existence' means the same thing in all contexts, rather than having different meanings when applied to different things.
    category(Aristotelian usage as discussed in the passage)
    A predicate, per Aristotle's usage; the term 'predicate' can refer to realities, concepts, or linguistic terms.
    coherent(de Finetti's usage in the context of the Dutch Book argument for probabilism)

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    A subject is coherent if their unconditional degrees of belief do not permit a Dutch Book (a guaranteed loss through a combination of bets) to be made against them
    inference(Nyāya epistemology)
    A component of epistemology in Nyāya philosophy; a veritable inference yields knowledge about the world and must have premises that are themselves known

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