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    Crescas can accept Abner's critiques of Aristotelian scie... — Carmelics
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    Crescas can accept Abner's critiques of Aristotelian science without accepting Abner's theological conclusions.

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    • 1.Abner's philosophical arguments rely on separating properties from bodies entirely.
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    • 2.Crescas instead distinguishes properties from matter alone, not from bodies.
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    • 3.This alternative grounding preserves the anti-Aristotelian critique while blocking the theological implications Abner derived.
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    • 1.Abner's theological conclusions follow necessarily from his rejection of Aristotelian hylomorphism, not merely from his property-body separation.
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    • 2.Crescas's alternative distinction between properties and matter still dismantles the hylomorphic framework that grounds Aristotelian natural theology.
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    • 3.Without hylomorphic form as an explanatory principle, Crescas cannot avoid the same theological vacuum Abner's critique created.
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    • 1.Spinoza's Ethics demonstrates that anti-Aristotelian physics systematically entails a necessitarian God incompatible with orthodox Jewish theology.
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    • 2.Crescas's own infinite-plenum cosmology, which echoes his anti-Aristotelian commitments, pushes toward divine necessitarianism that Abner would recognize as his own conclusion.
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    • 3.The theological implications Crescas sought to avoid were latent in the physical premises he retained, not in the property-body distinction he rejected.
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    Crescas refutes these proofs with his new definition of the different levels of material existence. In his opinion, only the common existence of matter and dimension cause the impermeability of the body. A body (matter and dimension) can go inside a void (only dimension), but not inside another body. In this argument we see Crescas utilize the work of the Jewish apostate Abner. Abner explained the birth of Jesus (and transubstantiation) by the argument that Jesus is body without dimension and c
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    Without hylomorphic form as an explanatory principle, Crescas cannot avoid the s...
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