 For Stump, God is esse and God is also id quod est. These claims, though apparently contradictory, must both be affirmed. The apparent contradiction arises because of a “deficiency in our mode of speaking” (Stump 2016, 207). She presumably means that this deficiency is in this life irremediable and ineluctable. In reality, however, there is no contradiction; the laws of logic apply to God, “and not just anything can be correctly affirmed of God” (2016, 207). 