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    It is not the case that Vision of all things in God guards against skepticism

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    Reasons For

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    • 1.Malebranche's account requires prior knowledge that our cognitive access to divine ideas is reliable, which itself presupposes non-skeptical foundations.
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    • 2.Arnauld's objection stands: if ideas are in God rather than the mind, we face a new skeptical gap between our mental states and the divine exemplars we allegedly perceive.
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    • 3.The necessity connecting exemplar and exemplum is only epistemically available to us if God's veracity is already established, making the anti-skeptical argument circular.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Hume's fork entails that necessary connections between distinct existents—here, divine idea and material world—cannot be established by reason or experience.
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    • 2.Even granting God's existence, the inference from necessary conceptual relations in the divine intellect to the structure of the created world trades on a rationalist assumption that existence tracks essence.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Skepticism arises when the idea by which we know a thing and the object known are not reliably connected
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    • 2.In Malebranche's view, ideas are exemplars in the mind of God after which God creates the world
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    • 3.Exemplar and exemplum are necessarily connected
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