 William Mann cites a couple of difficulties that arise if the divine attributes are said to be identical to each other. The first is that if God = wisdom, and God = life, then wisdom = life. But wisdom and life are not even extensionally equivalent, let alone identical. If Tom is alive, it doesn’t follow that Tom is wise (Mann 2015, 23). The second difficulty is that if God is wisdom, and Socrates is wise by participating in wisdom, then Socrates is wise by participating in God. But this smacks of heresy. No creature participates in God (Mann 2015, 23). The problem arises if the divine attributes are thought to be universals.