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    It is not the case that On Leibniz's account, eternal truths concerning essences are grounded in the divine intellect, not the divine will, and are thus necessary features of God's own nature.

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    • 1.Grounding essences in divine intellect seems to make them independent constraints on God, limiting divine omnipotence and freedom.
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    • 2.If essences are necessary features of God's nature, they appear to exist prior to or independently of God's creative act, raising pantheism concerns.
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    • 3.The intellect/will distinction may be artificially imposed; God's thinking and willing could be identical, making the distinction philosophically unstable.
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    • 1.Leibniz distinguishes truths of reason (eternal essences) from truths of fact (contingent choices), requiring different grounds for each.
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    • 2.If essences depended on divine will, they would be contingent rather than necessary, making mathematics and logic dependent on God's arbitrary choices.
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    • 3.God's intellect grasping eternal truths necessarily is more coherent than God willing them, since willing implies prior deliberation about options.
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