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    It is not the case that 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.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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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