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    It is not the case that Clarke's causal principle—that perfections must exist at least as greatly in the cause—assumes univocal predication, but Aquinas himself held divine intelligence is only analogically related to creaturely intelligence.

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    • 1.Clarke's principle concerns the logical necessity of perfection grounding, not semantic univocity of predicates.
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    • 2.Analogy and univocity address different problems: analogy addresses predication, while Clarke addresses causal sufficiency.
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    • 3.Aquinas accepted that God possesses all perfections eminently; Clarke's principle remains compatible with eminent possession.
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    • 1.Aquinas explicitly rejected univocal predication of divine and creaturely attributes in his analogia entis doctrine.
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    • 2.Clarke's principle requires effects to resemble causes univocally, making it incompatible with Aquinas's analogical framework.
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    • 3.If perfections are only analogically present in God, Clarke's causal principle cannot straightforwardly apply without modification.
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