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    It is not the case that Defining union through motion and passion presupposes the very relation it purports to explain, since passion already implies a receiver united to a cause.

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    • 1.Passion and motion can explain union without circularity if union means temporal achievement, not pre-existing metaphysical fact.
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    • 2.The charge of presupposition confuses conceptual components with temporal priority; passion logically involves union without requiring prior union.
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    • 3.Process-based accounts avoid circularity by treating union as what emerges through causation, not what must precede causal description.
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    • 1.Passion logically requires a patient (receiver) and agent already related; explaining union via passion thus assumes prior unity.
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    • 2.Circular explanation occurs when the definiendum (union) appears covertly in the definiens (passion and motion), making it non-explanatory.
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    • 3.Any causal account of union must establish how distinct entities become one; passion presupposes this relation already holds.
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