International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 74 (1):117-130 (2013)
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In this article, I explain how and why different attempts to defend absolute divine simplicity fail. A proponent of absolute divine simplicity has to explain why different attributions do not suppose a metaphysical complexity in God but just one superproperty, why there is no difference between God and His super-property and finally how a absolute simple entity can be the truthmaker of different intrinsic predications. It does not necessarily lead to a rejection of divine simplicity but it shows that we may consider another conception of divine simplicity compatible with some metaphysical complexity in God
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Keywords | God Simplicity Truthmaker Ontology |
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DOI | 10.1007/s11153-012-9336-7 |
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