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    There is a great and incomprehensible difference between ... — Carmelics
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    There is a great and incomprehensible difference between the human and the divine mind.

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    • 1.The divine mind is immeasurably beyond human understanding.
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    • 2.The truly pious acknowledge that God's nature exceeds human comprehension.
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    • 1.Meaningful theological predication requires some analogical continuity between human and divine attributes, as Aquinas argued in Summa Theologiae I.13.
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    • 2.If the divine mind is wholly incomprehensible, all positive theological claims—including claims about God's goodness or power—become semantically vacuous.
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    • 3.A theology that evacuates itself of cognitive content collapses into the atheism it purports to oppose, as Hume himself noted against negative theology.
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    • 1.The Imago Dei doctrine, central to Abrahamic traditions, entails that human rational faculties partially reflect divine intellect, grounding genuine resemblance.
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    • 2.Asserting incomprehensibility as a mark of piety is itself a comprehensible claim about God's nature, which performatively contradicts the doctrine of total incomprehensibility.
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    On the interpretation provided, it is clear that Hume’s critique of the argument from design is deep and radical. There are, however, several passages in the final Part of the Dialogues (XII) that suggest that Philo (Hume) reverses or at least moderates his position — making some significant concessions to Cleanthes’s position. The most important evidence of this appears in a passage at the beginning of Part XII where Philo says that no one can be so stupid as to reject the view that there are s
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