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    It is not the case that It is necessarily true that God creates w*

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    • 1.Necessarily creating any particular world is incompatible with divine freedom, as Leibniz himself acknowledged God deliberates among compossibles.
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    • 2.If God necessarily creates w*, God lacks libertarian freedom, collapsing into Spinozistic necessitarianism where God cannot do otherwise.
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    • 3.Divine aseity requires that God's creative act be contingent, not necessitated by any external standard like 'bestness'.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.The predicate 'best possible world' may be undefined if the set of possible worlds is infinite and unbounded, as Swinburne and others argue.
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    • 2.If no world is uniquely best because for any candidate world a better world is conceivable, then P2 is necessarily false and the argument fails.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Being the best possible world is an essential property of whatever world has it
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    • 2.w* is the best possible world
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    • 3.Therefore it is necessarily true that w* is the best possible world
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