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    God is free of matter-form composition, potency-act compo... — Carmelics
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    God is free of matter-form composition, potency-act composition, and existence-essence composition.

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    • God lacks metaphysical parts or ontological constituents.
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    • 1.Aquinas himself distinguishes God's intellect, will, and power as conceptually distinct attributes with different formal objects.
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    • 2.If distinct formal objects correspond to real intentional structures in God, then existence-essence composition cannot be wholly absent.
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    • 3.Scotus's formal distinction demonstrates that real non-identity between divine attributes is coherent without reducing God to a composite of separable parts.
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    • 1.God's free creative acts are contingent, while God's nature is necessary, implying a real distinction between God's will and essence.
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    • 2.A real distinction between two aspects of a being constitutes a form of composition, contradicting absolute simplicity.
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    According to the classical theism of Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas and their adherents, God is radically unlike creatures and cannot be adequately understood in ways appropriate to them. God is simple in that God transcends every form of complexity and composition familiar to the discursive intellect. One consequence is that the simple God lacks parts. This lack is not a deficiency but a positive feature. God is ontologically superior to every partite entity, and his partlessness is an index thereof. Broadly construed, ‘part’ covers not only spatial and temporal parts (if any) but also metaphysic...
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    Validity: The passage explicitly states "To say that God lacks metaphysical parts is to say inter alia that God is free of matter-form composition, potency-act composition, and existence-essence composition," directly presenting the premise as supporting the conclusion.

    Confidence: Directly stated as a consequence of divine simplicity.

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