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    Explaining individuation means explaining how a multiplic... — Carmelics
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    Explaining individuation means explaining how a multiplicity of individuals can be obtained from a single specific nature.

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    • 1.The problem of individuation is the dialectical development from one to many.
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    • 2.The problem of individuation is not the passage from abstract to concrete.
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    • 1.Individuation is not extraction of many from one nature, but rather the prior ontological question of what makes any individual *this* individual at all.
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    • 2.Scotus's haecceitas tradition shows individuation concerns a positive thisness irreducible to specific nature, making 'multiplicity from nature' the wrong explanatory target.
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    • 3.Explaining how one nature yields many presupposes individuals already exist to be counted, making the claim explanatorily circular.
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    • 1.Aristotelian hylomorphism locates individuation in prime matter, making specific nature neither the starting point nor the explanatory ground of numerical distinctness.
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    • 2.If matter individuates, the problem is not how one nature generates many, but how form and matter jointly constitute a single unrepeatable particular—a structurally different question.
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    As a result, Sharpe’s world consists of finite beings (that is, “things” like men, horses, stones etc.), really existing outside the mind, made up of an individual substance and a host of formal entities (common substantial natures and accidental forms, both universal and singular) existing in it and through it, since none of these formal entities can exist by themselves. They are real only insofar as they constitute individual substances or are present in individual substances qua their propert
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