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    Relational complexity in divinity introduces composition ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Al-Farabi's argument assumes Neoplatonic simplicity as the only model of divinity, but this begs the question against traditions where relational complexity is internal to the divine nature.

    Relational complexity in divinity introduces composition and dependency, which creates the same explanatory problems—infinite regress, contingency—that simplicity was designed to solve.

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    Key Terms

    Contingency(as a value Leibniz wanted to preserve)
    The quality of something being possible but not necessary—it could be different than it is, or might not happen at all.
    Dependency(as used in describing the effects of paternalism)
    A situation where someone relies so heavily on something or someone else that they lose the ability to function or think independently.
    Relational complexity(an alternative view of how God's nature might be structured)
    The idea that something can have internal relationships or connections between its parts, making it complex rather than completely simple and unified.
    Simplicity(Doctrine of the simple reality)
    An attribute of perfection that denies any contingent facet to God
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    The movement back from causes to effects.
    divinity(Bishop and Perszyk's usage within the euteleological model)
    The property or activity of being the supreme good; on the euteleological model, not a substance or person but a quality instantiable by concrete occasions of love.
    infinite regress(modes of argumentation available to a dogmatist)
    An argument structure in which grounds are offered for a claim P, then grounds for those grounds, and so on indefinitely without ever repeating a proposition

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