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    It is not the case that Arnauld's collapse of idea into perception cannot account for the asymmetric causal requirement that ideas with greater objective reality demand causes of proportionally greater formal reality.

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    • 1.Arnauld's reduction of ideas to perceptions may preserve proportionality by reformulating it in terms of perceptual content demands, not metaphysical distinctions.
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    • 2.The objective/formal reality distinction itself may be conceptually confused; collapsing it could clarify rather than undermine causal explanation.
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    • 3.Alternative causal principles (genetic or explanatory sufficiency) might account for complex ideas without requiring Descartes' specific asymmetric framework.
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    • 1.Descartes' causal principle requires cause proportionality: ideas of infinite perfection need infinite causes, not finite minds.
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    • 2.If ideas collapse into perceptions, distinctions between objective and formal reality dissolve, eliminating the proportionality constraint.
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    • 3.Arnauld cannot explain why a finite mind's perception of God demands God's existence without reintroducing the objective/formal distinction.
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