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    There must be an eternal intelligence realized in the related facts of the world that partially reproduces itself in individual human minds.

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    • 1.The order of which any individual human being is aware extends beyond what could plausibly be constituted by that individual alone.
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    • 2.The order of which we are each aware must therefore be constituted by a mind or intelligence greater than that of any individual human being.
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    • 1.Hume's bundle theory shows that 'order' is a pattern projected by minds onto experience, not an independently existing feature requiring a grounding intelligence.
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    • 2.Darwin's mechanism of natural selection produces the appearance of intelligent design through blind variation and differential survival, without invoking any directing mind.
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    • 3.The inference from 'order exceeds individual constitution' to 'a greater mind constitutes it' commits the composition fallacy: collective emergence need not entail a collective constituting subject.
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    • 1.Kant's Critique of Pure Reason establishes that the categories organizing experience are contributed by the finite human mind itself, not received from an external intelligence.
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    • 2.If the structuring conditions of experience are transcendental features of human cognition, positing an eternal intelligence to explain shared cognitive order is an explanatorily redundant move beyond what the phenomena require.
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    Thus far, Green’s position could be considered an epistemological argument for idealism. However, he quickly moves beyond a merely epistemological argument, because his next move is to argue that since the order of which any individual human being is in various ways and to various degrees aware obviously extends beyond what could plausibly be thought to be constituted just by that individual, the order of which we are each aware must be constituted by a mind or intelligence greater than that of
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