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    Disjunctions such as infinite-or-finite and necessary-or-... — Carmelics
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    Disjunctions such as infinite-or-finite and necessary-or-contingent are transcendentals.

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    • 1.Scotus identifies an indefinite number of disjunctions that are coextensive with being.
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    • 2.Whatever is coextensive with being counts as a transcendental.
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    • 1.Aquinas and the Thomistic tradition hold that transcendentals are convertible with being and express positive perfections, not logical disjunctions.
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    • 2.Logical disjunctions are features of propositions and concepts, not real properties inhering in being as such.
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    • 3.Admitting disjunctive transcendentals collapses the distinction between formal ontology and propositional logic, undermining the metaphysical foundation of the transcendental project.
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    • 1.Transcendentals must apply to every being without exception, but disjunctive predicates permit each member to apply only to some beings.
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    • 2.A predicate coextensive with being only as a disjunction fails the univocity requirement that grounds Scotus's own transcendental theory.
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    The study of being qua being includes, first of all, the study of the transcendentals, so called because they transcend the division of being into finite and infinite, and the further division of finite being into the ten Aristotelian categories. Being itself is a transcendental, and so are the “proper attributes” of being—one, true, and good—which are coextensive with being. Scotus also identifies an indefinite number of disjunctions that are coextensive with being and therefore count as transc
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