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    Supports→There must be an intelligible entity that accounts for the world's order and goodness.

    Only intelligible entities can account for order, and order amounts to goodness.

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    Now, for Platonists only intelligible entities can account for order which amounts to goodness. A Platonic Form, for instance, is responsible for the ordered existence of the physical things it is the Form of. A soul too accounts for the existence of living things, such as animals. Since the world has an order of its own as a single well-ordered whole, there must be such an intelligible entity that accounts for the world's order, wherein its goodness or orderliness lies (kosmos). Being the sourc

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