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    It is not the case that The theodicy establishes not only what errors God can allow but also what errors God cannot allow

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    • 1.God's omnipotence entails the power to permit error even on occasions of clear and distinct perception, since omnipotence cannot be bounded by epistemic categories.
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    • 2.Descartes' own demon hypothesis demonstrates that a being of sufficient power could systematically deceive even the most careful perceiver, undermining the clear/distinct distinction as a reliable limit on divine permission.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Leibniz's theodicy in the Theodicée shows that a perfect God may permit any finite evil—including cognitive error—if it serves the best possible world, with no category of error logically immune from divine allowance.
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    • 2.The Cartesian identification of God's perfection with non-deception conflates metaphysical perfection with a specific moral constraint, a conflation Malebranche's occasionalism explicitly rejects by permitting God to act through imperfect general laws that produce error.
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    • 1.Theodicy explains the kinds of error God can permit (those resulting from the perceiver's misuse of free will)
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    • 2.Errors on occasions of clear and distinct perception would be God's fault, not the perceiver's
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    • 3.God, being all-perfect, cannot be the cause of error
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