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    It is not the case that Disjunctions such as infinite-or-finite and necessary-or-contingent are transcendentals.

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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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    • 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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