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    Any ultimate cause or principle must be unchangeable, una... — Carmelics
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    Any ultimate cause or principle must be unchangeable, unalterable, single in nature, and complete in order to be a satisfactory principle.

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    • 1.Whatever genuinely is cannot be subject to coming-to-be or passing-away.
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    • 2.Whatever genuinely is must be of a single nature.
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    • 3.Whatever genuinely is must be complete — unchangeably and unalterably what it is.
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    • 1.Heraclitus demonstrates that logos, as ultimate principle, is constituted by dynamic tension and flux rather than static immutability.
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    • 2.A principle that cannot account for change is explanatorily incomplete, since change is among the primary phenomena requiring explanation.
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    • 3.Explanatory completeness requires that an ultimate principle contain the generative conditions for what it explains, including mutability itself.
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    • 1.Aristotle's unmoved mover is singular and unchanging yet requires potentiality-laden matter as a co-principle, showing no single unchanging principle suffices.
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    • 2.If multiplicity and change exist, a satisfactory ultimate explanation must either be plural or internally differentiated enough to generate them without remainder.
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    Any thing that genuinely is cannot be subject to coming-to-be or passing-away, must be of a single nature, and must be complete, in the sense of being unchangeably and unalterably what it is. These are signs for what any ultimate cause or principle must be like, if it is to be satisfactory as a principle, as something that can be known. The signs are adverbial, showing how what-is is (Mourelatos 2008). Only an entity which is in the complete way can be grasped and understood in its entirety by t
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    Whatever genuinely is must be complete — unchangeably and unalterably what it is...
    Whatever genuinely is must be of a single nature.
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