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    God's unity is unlike the unity of any other thing called... — Carmelics
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    God's unity is unlike the unity of any other thing called 'one'

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    • 1.Among all essences, nothing can be found that is like God
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    • 2.Therefore predicating unity of God means denying that his unity resembles any other unity
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    • 1.Aquinas argues that unity predicated of God and creatures shares an analogical structure, not mere equivocation, preserving real conceptual continuity.
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    • 2.If divine unity shares no logical structure with creaturely unity, theological language becomes incoherent and incapable of conveying any determinate content.
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    • 1.Duns Scotus's univocity doctrine holds that 'one' must mean the same thing when predicated of God and creatures, or rational theology is impossible.
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    • 2.Ibn Daud's purely negative inference from incomparability of essence to incomparability of unity commits a non sequitur, since formal properties can be shared across ontologically distinct beings.
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    Any thing other than God that is called 'one' can be one only through ...90%There is a fundamental and underlying unity of Nature or Substance and...82%Any thing other than God that is called 'one' is many as well as one81%Therefore predicating unity of God means denying that his unity resemb...81%

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    This God is absolutely one, both in the sense of unique (God is externally one) and in the sense of simple (God is internally one,or uncomposed). God’s unity implies that he cannot have essential or accidental attributes since that would imply plurality in the divine essence. Therefore, the attributes that are often ascribed to God, such as that he is one, existent, true, mighty etc. etc. should be interpreted either negatively, or as relations. According to Ibn Daud, “the truest predicates or a
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