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    A thing is good to the extent it exemplifies its specifyi... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Goodness and being coincide in reality in any given thing, though they differ conceptually.

    A thing is good to the extent it exemplifies its specifying characteristics.

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    Philip adopts the second notion of convertibility. The various transcendentals do not differ in reality, only in concept. The concept of being is fundamental in that the concepts of the other transcendentals presuppose it. However, the concepts of all of the other transcendentals add a certain basic notion to the notion of being in order to differentiate them from being (see Aertsen 2012, MacDonald 1992). This basic notion is the notion of being that is undivided. Because this is a purely negati

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