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    It is not the case that A human being has at least one substantial form rooted in matter and another substantial form that comes from an external source.

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    • 1.A single substantial form can ground all capacities of a being, both sensitive and rational, without requiring ontological plurality.
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    • 2.Thomas Aquinas argued that admitting multiple substantial forms destroys the per se unity of the human composite, reducing it to an accidental aggregate.
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    • 3.If rational capacity requires an external substantial form, the resulting entity is two substances joined accidentally, not one human being.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.The origin of a capacity outside matter does not entail that it constitutes a distinct substantial form rather than a distinct faculty within one form.
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    • 2.Averroes and later Pomponazzi demonstrated that the intellect's immateriality can be explained through its functional role without positing a numerically separate substantial principle in the individual.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Non-rational capacities arise from the matter of the thing.
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    • 2.Rational capacities must come from some external source.
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