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    It is not the case that Explaining individuation means explaining how a multiplicity of individuals can be obtained from a single specific nature.

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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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    • 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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