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( 65 ) by the promptings of God. My proof does not suffer from the fallacy of taking for granted what is to be proved.
A.-If it is so, then God will require another
God to prompt Him to action, and that God, a third God to move him on and so on and so forth. Such a proposition involves the fallacy of reasoning in a circle.
42. Q.—Artisans &c. are ignorant ; therefore
they require the prompting of God, but God being omniscient, does not require such a stimulus. My reasoning has, there
fore, no fallacy. A.-This statement is also wrong as it is mutually contradictory. You have first to prove that God has a clear knowledge of all things, then you can prove that God acts without any prompting from any other Being. When it is proved that God acts of Himself without a stimulus from some one else, then only it can be proved that God has a clear knowledge of all things. Until one of these propositions is proved, the other cannot be established. O
