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    Challenges→The perfections constitutive of the divine nature are identical with one another.

    Omnipotence is defined by its modal relation to possible states of affairs, while omniscience is defined by its relation to propositions—these are irreducibly distinct intentional structures.

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    • 1.Omnipotence concerns ability to actualize states; omniscience concerns truth-value awareness. These target fundamentally different ontological categories.
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    • 2.Propositions have truth-conditions independent of power; possible states require causal or modal agency. Their intentional structures are irreducibly distinct.
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    • 3.A being could know all truths without being able to actualize contradictory states, showing knowledge and power involve separate modal relations.
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    • 1.Possible states of affairs just are what true propositions describe. Distinguishing them treats notation as ontology rather than alternative expression.
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    • 2.Both omnipotence and omniscience require grasping the complete modal space. Their intentional structures converge at the level of what could-be-the-case.
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    • 3.The claim assumes propositions and states are distinct entities, but this conflates semantic content with metaphysical fundamentals without justification.
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    Key Terms

    Intentional structures(in philosophy of mind)
    The different ways the mind can be directed toward or relate to things—like how knowing something works differently than being able to do something.
    Irreducibly distinct(as a description of how ordo and methodus are fundamentally different from each other)
    Completely separate and different in ways that cannot be simplified or combined—meaning these two functions cannot be merged into one without losing their unique characteristics.
    Possible states of affairs(in discussing omnipotence)
    Any situation, scenario, or way the world could potentially be, including things that don't actually exist.
    modal relation(describing what kind of relationship supervenience is)
    A relationship that involves possibility and necessity—how things *could be* or *must be*—rather than just how they actually are right now.
    omnipotence(Bruno's theological framework)
    God's primary attribute as designated by the Apostles' Creed, entailing that all possibilities are actualized
    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.
    propositions(Answer to the question of what metaphysical category propositions belong to)
    Entities belonging to a sui generis metaphysical category of their own kind, not reducible to other categories

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