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    Aquinas's own doctrine of analogical predication concedes... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→God is uniquely unique—unique not as one of a kind, but in transcending the distinction between kind and member of a kind.

    Aquinas's own doctrine of analogical predication concedes that divine attributes are neither univocal nor equivocal but analogical.

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    • 1.Univocal predication fails: 'powerful' cannot mean identically for God and creatures given infinite vs finite differences.
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    • 2.Equivocal predication fails: it makes theological language meaningless and severs any rational connection between God-talk and reality.
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    • 3.Analogy preserves meaning proportionally: 'just' applies to God and humans through similar relational structures, not identical definitions.
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    • 1.Analogy remains unclear: Aquinas never specifies which analogies work or why proportionality avoids disguised equivocity.
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    • 2.The via negativa suffices: negative theology ('God is not finite') more rigorously respects divine transcendence than positive analogy.
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    • 3.Analogy smuggles univocity: asserting proportional similarity presupposes enough univocal understanding to ground the comparison itself.
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