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    It is not the case that Boethius himself in De Hebdomadibus treats this distinction as logically real, not merely linguistic, since it grounds the difference between God and creatures.

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    • 1.Boethius may have conflated ontological priority with logical distinctness; the distinction could be real without being formally logical.
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    • 2.Modern analysis suggests essence-existence language may be a useful conceptual tool rather than a discovery of objective logical structure.
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    • 3.Boethius's texts are ambiguous about whether he endorses metaphysical realism of logical distinctions versus semantic conventionalism.
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    • 1.Boethius needed a real distinction to explain why God's essence equals His existence while creatures' essences differ from theirs.
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    • 2.If essence-existence distinction were merely linguistic, it couldn't ground the metaphysical difference between divine and created being.
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    • 3.Medieval theology requires real distinctions to avoid pantheism and preserve God's transcendence as substantively different from creatures.
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