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    The claim that God 'grounds' abstract objects presupposes... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→God is not just another necessary being among necessary beings; he is uniquely necessary as the source and ground of everything distinct from himself.

    The claim that God 'grounds' abstract objects presupposes a priority relation that modal logic itself cannot express, making the distinction metaphysically idle without independent justification.

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    Key Terms

    Modal logic(logic)
    A system of logic that deals with concepts like possibility, necessity, and what could or must be true.
    abstract objects(The target of Platonist ontological claims)
    Objects referred to by singular terms in literally true sentences that cannot be paraphrased away; includes mathematical objects (e.g., numbers), propositions, properties, relations, sentence types, possible worlds, logical objects, and fictional objects.
    grounds(Used in the context of justifying beliefs about the future on the basis of past information)
    Information or evidence that confers rational entitlement to hold a belief or assumption
    metaphysically idle(metaphysics)
    A philosophical term for a claim or distinction that doesn't actually do any real work in explaining how reality is; it's meaningless or pointless.

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    priority relation(metaphysics)
    A way of ordering things to show that one thing is more fundamental or comes 'before' another in importance or existence, even if not in time.

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