Basedman420
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Axiom (A): Rational necessities such as the validity of the law of identity are true.
1- Our knowledge of rational necessities arises from an inescapable internal intuitive awareness. This compelling awareness is the cause of our connection to necessary truths, not a mere cognitive representation that follows them.
2- If it were possible for this awareness to be deceptive that is, for us to be mistaken in it this would imply the possibility of a false rational necessity, which contradicts Axiom (A).
3- Therefore, it is ontologically impossible for anything to exist that, if it did exist, would lead us to be deceived in our compelling awareness of necessary truths in other words, to acquire false necessary knowledge.
4- However, this impossibility is not intrinsic (i.e., due to internal contradiction), but rather extrinsic arising from the existence of a real external preventing factor that disallows such deception from being realized, rather than from the mere concept itself.
5- Now, if it were conceivable that God could commit evil, then such deception would be possible because deceiving humans in their rational necessities, while having the power to avoid doing so, falls under the category of evil. But since God’s doing evil and refraining from it would then be considered equally possible, the preventing factor would no longer be in effect. This would nullify the extrinsic impossibility in (4).
6- Therefore, the only adequate preventing factor that ensures the extrinsic impossibility of such deception is the impossibility of God committing evil. Since deception in rational necessities is within the scope of divine power, its impossibility must stem from its incompatibility with a necessary attribute of God nam
ely, His wisdom.
1- Our knowledge of rational necessities arises from an inescapable internal intuitive awareness. This compelling awareness is the cause of our connection to necessary truths, not a mere cognitive representation that follows them.
2- If it were possible for this awareness to be deceptive that is, for us to be mistaken in it this would imply the possibility of a false rational necessity, which contradicts Axiom (A).
3- Therefore, it is ontologically impossible for anything to exist that, if it did exist, would lead us to be deceived in our compelling awareness of necessary truths in other words, to acquire false necessary knowledge.
4- However, this impossibility is not intrinsic (i.e., due to internal contradiction), but rather extrinsic arising from the existence of a real external preventing factor that disallows such deception from being realized, rather than from the mere concept itself.
5- Now, if it were conceivable that God could commit evil, then such deception would be possible because deceiving humans in their rational necessities, while having the power to avoid doing so, falls under the category of evil. But since God’s doing evil and refraining from it would then be considered equally possible, the preventing factor would no longer be in effect. This would nullify the extrinsic impossibility in (4).
6- Therefore, the only adequate preventing factor that ensures the extrinsic impossibility of such deception is the impossibility of God committing evil. Since deception in rational necessities is within the scope of divine power, its impossibility must stem from its incompatibility with a necessary attribute of God nam
ely, His wisdom.
