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    To attribute perfection to God is to employ a predicate w... — Carmelics
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    Supports→We cannot attribute perfection to God

    To attribute perfection to God is to employ a predicate whose conditions of application are systematically absent in the theological context where it is deployed.

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    • 1.Perfection requires comparison to standards; theological contexts explicitly deny God has external standards to measure against.
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    • 2.Perfection predicates assume limitations (perfect for X purpose); God's transcendence excludes such functional constraints.
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    • 3.We learn perfection through human experience; God's radical otherness makes these learned conditions inapplicable.
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    • 1.Many abstract predicates (unity, existence, causality) apply to God despite lacking empirical conditions; perfection may work similarly.
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    • 2.Theologians defend perfection via analogy and negative theology; these are legitimate meaning-application strategies.
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    • 3.The claim conflates epistemological limits with semantic vacancy; we may meaningfully apply terms we cannot fully ground.
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