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    It is not the case that One reasonable response to the contradiction is to deny divine simplicity.

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    Reasons For

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    Reason for 1 of 2
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    • 1.Divine simplicity is entailed by classical perfect being theology: a composite God would depend on parts, violating aseity.
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    • 2.Denying simplicity to resolve apparent contradictions sacrifices explanatory coherence for mere verbal consistency.
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    • 3.Aquinas, Maimonides, and Avicenna converge on simplicity as the only coherent account of an uncaused first cause.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.The contradiction in P1 arises from applying discursive, creaturely categories to God, not from simplicity itself being false.
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    • 2.Apophatic theology, from Pseudo-Dionysius through Meister Eckhart, holds that apparent contradictions signal the limits of predication, not divine incoherence.
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    Reasons Against

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    • The notion of self-subsistent Being is contradictory to the discursive intellect.
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