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    It is not the case that God's unity is unlike the unity of any other thing called 'one'

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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