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    It is not the case that A principle that shares nothing with being—not even productive power directed toward being—loses any explanatory connection to the beings it supposedly generates.

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    • 1.Complete dissimilarity need not break explanatory force; mathematical functions generate outputs with properties the function itself lacks.
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    • 2.Requiring explanatory principles to resemble their effects may wrongly assume univocal causation across all domains of reality.
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    • 3.Negative theology successfully explains divine action precisely by denying all positive predicates to the divine principle.
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    • 1.Causal explanations require some relevant similarity between cause and effect, or the connection becomes purely arbitrary.
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    • 2.A principle utterly transcendent of being cannot be intelligibly related to beings without contradicting its own nature.
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    • 3.If a generator shares nothing with what it generates, we cannot distinguish it from pure fiction or meaningless stipulation.
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