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    Challenges→The argument from God's lack of dimensionality fails to show that God cannot be identified or located

    The identification of physical objects proceeds through an interplay of qualitative features and relative positions to determine location and identity

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    A problem with the argument from God’s lack of dimensionality is that the practice of identifying physical objects proceeds by way of an interplay between qualitative features and relative positions to determine both location and identity. The judgments we make reflect a holistic practice of making identifications of place and identity together. There is no obvious reason why the identification of God cannot take place within its own holistic practice, with its own criteria of identification, no

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