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    We can have good reason to believe something is both X an... — Carmelics
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    We can have good reason to believe something is both X and Y even if we cannot understand how it could be both.

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    • 1.Light behaves both like a particle and like a wave.
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    • 2.We have good reason to believe light is both a particle and a wave despite the difficulty or impossibility of understanding how it could be both.
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    • 1.Wave-particle duality is not a case of genuinely contradictory properties but of context-dependent measurement outcomes described by a unified formalism.
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    • 2.Analogies drawn from physics to theology are only epistemically useful when the logical structure of the puzzles is relevantly similar.
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    • 3.Divine simplicity requires reconciling properties that are categorically distinct in ways that wave-particle duality, governed by a single Schrödinger equation, is not.
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    • 1.Quine and Duhem established that anomalous empirical results license belief revision across an entire theoretical web, not indefinite tolerance of contradiction.
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    • 2.The wave-particle case produced new theory (quantum mechanics) that dissolved rather than preserved the apparent contradiction.
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    • 3.Appealing to scientific mystery to license theological mystery conflates productive aporia, which drives inquiry forward, with permanently opaque predication.
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    So God must be both simple and free to be absolute. But it is very difficult to understand how a simple being could be free in the unconditional ‘could have done otherwise’ sense. If God is simple, then he is pure act, as was explained at the beginning of this entry. It follows that God is devoid of unrealized powers, potentialities, or possibilities. To act freely, however is to act in such a way that one (unconditionally) could have done otherwise, which implies unrealized possibilities of divine action. Now Dolezal’s view is that it is not only difficult to reconcile simplicity and (liberta...

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