Mackie and Sobel demonstrated that 'absolute perfection' is not a coherent single predicate but a placeholder that collapses under the logical incompatibility of its constituent omni-properties (e.g., omniscience vs. libertarian freedom).
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absolute perfection(Suárez's metaphysics of divine attributes)
The highest degree of perfection that serves as the standard by which other beings admitting of degrees of perfection are measured
coherent(de Finetti's usage in the context of the Dutch Book argument for probabilism)
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
libertarian freedom
The view that freedom involves a radical, indeterminist exercise of power.
omniscience(The passage tests omniscience against mathematical undecidability)
The property of knowing everything; used here to probe whether divine knowledge extends to undecided mathematical propositions.
predicate(Logical/grammatical ontology in Eisagoge)
Either a sound signifying a meaning or a meaning signified by a certain sound