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1. Evil

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   The Free Will Defense: Posits that the capacity for moral good requires the genuine possibility of choosing evil.
   Soul-Making Theodicy: Argues that adversity and suffering are necessary conditions for the development of virtuous character traits , suggesting evil serves as a functional crucible for spiritual refinement .
   *Skeptical Theism…

2. Infinite

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   Ancient Greek philosophers treated the concept primarily as apeiron (ἄπειρον), or the unlimited. Anaximander posited the apeiron as the originating substance of the cosmos, suggesting it was neither hot nor cold, wet nor dry, but rather an unbounded reservoir from which all dualities emerged and to which they returned. Aristotle later differentiated between potential infinity and actual infinity, arguing that only the former—the capacity for a process to continu…