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    Challenges→If numerical identity is sortal-relative, the Father and Son can be the same God yet distinct persons without contradiction, undermining the premise that they are simply 'non-identical'.

    The Father and Son being distinct persons yet identical as God invokes relative identity but also requires they differ in at least one property (personhood), making absolute non-identity unavoidable.

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    Absolute non-identity(in logic and metaphysics)
    Being completely and totally different in every possible way, with no similarity whatsoever.
    Identical as God(in theology)
    Being the exact same thing or substance in a fundamental way—here, sharing the same divine nature or essence.
    distinct persons(Morris's proposed weakening of the standard criterion for personal distinctness)
    Persons are distinct if it is possible that their wills differ in any respect.
    personhood(Presented as the telos of moral agency)
    A status achievable through moral achievement, contingent on the exercise of the capacity for virtue.
    property(Locke's demonstration of the moral proposition 'Where there is no property, there is no injustice.')

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    relative identity(The passage argues against the coherence of relative identity using Leibniz's Law.)
    The view that identity can hold relative to a sortal, so that a and b may be the same F but not the same G.

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