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The argument that God's being perfectly loving requires God to engage in the best kind of loving relationship with another is flawed.

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1.The argument depends on an equivocation on the phrase 'perfectly loving'.
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2.Holding that God has the character trait of being perfectly loving does not imply the action of perfectly loving, i.e., engaging in the best kind of loving relationship with another.
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Lebens and Tuggy 2019

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One may object that this argument depends on an equivocation on the phrase “perfectly loving”. One who thinks that God is a perfect being must hold that God has the character trait of being perfectly loving, but this doesn’t seem to imply the action of perfectly loving (i.e. engaging in the best kind of loving relationship with another) (Lebens and Tuggy 2019).

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Validity: The extracted argument accurately captures the objection presented in the source passage, where the equivocation between the character trait of being perfectly loving and the action of perfectly loving is used to attack the conclusion that God's being perfectly loving requires engaging in the best kind of loving relationship.

Confidence: Clear attack argument explicitly stated in the text.

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Type: claim
Perspectives: 1 (0 for, 1 against)
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