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    Therefore the very theological grounding meant to secure ... — Carmelics
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    Therefore the very theological grounding meant to secure necessity instead undermines it, collapsing into a divine voluntarism incompatible with genuine necessity.

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    • 1.If God freely wills all necessary truths, their truth depends on divine choice, making them contingent rather than necessary.
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    • 2.Genuine necessity requires that a proposition could not be false in any possible world; divine volition introduces possible alternatives.
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    • 3.Theological grounding of necessity via God's will conflates metaphysical necessity with epistemic certainty about divine decrees.
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    • 1.Divine necessity and human necessity are distinct categories; God's eternal nature could ground necessity without involving voluntarism.
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    • 2.A necessary being's necessary acts (like understanding truths) differ fundamentally from contingent acts; not all divine activity is voluntary choice.
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    • 3.The claim assumes theological grounding requires divine will; it could instead ground necessity in God's eternal intellect or nature.
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