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    Challenges→Plutarch's model conflates a soul that *predominates* over irrationality with one that *rules* it, making the world soul's rationality merely partial, not sovereign.

    Even sovereign rule in finite systems involves degrees of implementation; distinguishing rule from predominance requires a conception of sovereignty that classical metaphysics may not employ.

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    Classical metaphysics(as a historical philosophical tradition)
    Traditional Western philosophy (especially from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages) that asks big questions about what exists and how reality works.
    Degrees of implementation(as used in philosophy of action)
    The idea that rules or ideas aren't always applied perfectly or completely—they exist in varying amounts or strengths.
    Finite systems(as used in metaphysics)
    Organized structures or sets of rules that have limits and boundaries, rather than being infinite or unlimited.
    Predominance(as used in metaphysics)
    When something is the strongest or most powerful force in a situation, but not necessarily the only authority.
    Sovereign rule

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    (as used in political philosophy)
    Complete, ultimate power or authority that cannot be overruled by anyone else—like a king with absolute control.
    metaphysics(Hartshorne's naturalistic redefinition of metaphysics)
    On Hartshorne's view, the study not of realities beyond the physical, but of features of reality that are ubiquitous or that would exist in any possible world.
    sovereignty(Cloots's argument for a single world state based on the logical properties of sovereignty itself.)
    A political concept that involves indivisibility, implying that there can be only one ultimate sovereign authority.

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