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    It is not the case that A plurality of substantial forms must be posited to avoid metaphysical incongruities.

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    Reasons For

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    • 1.Aquinas demonstrates that a single substantial form—the rational soul—hierarchically contains and unifies vegetative and sensitive powers without metaphysical remainder.
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    • 2.The post-mortem corpse is not numerically identical to the living body but a distinct substance, making persistence across death a false metaphysical requirement.
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    • 3.Positing plural forms generates a worse incongruity: if matter can receive multiple substantial forms, the unity of substance is undermined, collapsing into accidental aggregation.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Aristotle's hylomorphism in De Anima entails that matter individuated by a single form suffices to explain the organized complexity of living bodies without ontological redundancy.
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    • 2.The demand for a forma corporeitatis distinct from the soul illicitly treats the soul's animating function as separable from its constitutive role, conflating two aspects of one act.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.A single substantial form cannot account for the persistence of a numerically identical body through death.
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    • 2.Without a plurality of forms, the metaphysical status of the corpse and the living body cannot be coherently distinguished.
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