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    The world is created by a divine will — a superior power ... — Carmelics
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    The world is created by a divine will — a superior power capable of bringing humans into existence, maintaining them, or destroying them

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    • 1.Sensation indicates that a creative being must exist
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    • 2.The creative being cannot be less perfect than human will
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    • 3.The creative being cannot be human, because reflection reveals that humans are not self-causing
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    • 1.Hume's Dialogues show that inferring a perfect divine will from observed effects commits an analogical fallacy: effects only license proportionate causes.
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    • 2.The world's mixture of order and disorder warrants at most a finite, imperfect cause, not an omnipotent sustaining will.
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    • 1.Spinoza demonstrates that a self-causing substance need not be a personal will but can be an impersonal necessary nature (Deus sive Natura).
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    • 2.The argument's move from 'self-causing' to 'superior divine will' illicitly smuggles in personhood, which the logical structure of the proof does not establish.
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    In the Essays on the Law of Nature, for example, Locke claims that, based on sensory experience, we can assert the extra-mental existence of perceptible objects and all their perceptible qualities. All such qualities can be explained by reference to matter in motion. What is also clear to the senses, Locke argues, is that this world of moving objects exhibits a nomological regularity, or as Locke puts it, a “wonderful art and regularity” (Locke 1663–64, 103). Such regularity and beauty leads the
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