On “Divine Simplicity - A New Defense”

Abstract

I have two criticisms of Vallicella's "Divine Simplicity: A New Defense." One is that its argument for property self-exemplification fails because it ignores the distinction between "what" clauses employing first-level quantification and those employing second-level quantification. The second criticism is that his refection of logically simple propositions stems from a failure to see that the argument for those propositions is based on a logical premiss, not a grammatical one.