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    It is not the case that Aristotle's critique in Metaphysics Gamma shows that radical flux destroys the identity conditions needed for any predication, including the predication 'X perceives Y'.

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    • 1.Identity conditions need not require absolute immutability—only sufficient continuity; flux-theories can preserve this through relative stability.
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    • 2.Radical flux may apply only to sensible particulars, not to the rational soul or formal principles that ground predication and perception.
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    • 3.Heraclitean flux itself functions as a stable metaphysical principle; this self-exception undermines the argument's universal scope.
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    • 1.Predication requires a subject that persists through the attribution; radical flux denies any stable substrate for subjects to inhere in.
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    • 2.If X changes completely between perceiving and being named as perceiver, the identity 'X' becomes meaningless; radical flux entails this.
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    • 3.Perception itself is a relational predicate requiring both perceiver and perceived to maintain identity across the cognitive act.
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