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    Human conceptual ability is limited to natural concepts of qualities.

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    • 1.Mental concepts cannot resemble substances because thinking of substances would transform the mind into a new substance.
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    • 2.Mental concepts cannot resemble pure quantities because thinking of infinite magnitudes would make the mind infinite.
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    • 3.The same exclusion applies to all Aristotelian categories besides quality.
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    • 1.Aquinas holds that the intellect abstracts substantial forms directly, representing 'what a thing is' rather than merely how it appears qualitatively.
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    • 2.Crathorn's argument conflates the ontological mode of a concept's existence in the mind with its representational content, committing a category error.
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    • 3.A concept can exist as a quality of the soul while still representing substances or quantities, just as a painted circle exists as pigment yet represents circularity.
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    • 1.Kant's categories of the understanding (causality, substance, unity) are non-qualitative yet constitutive of human cognition, not derived from sensory qualities.
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    • 2.If humans successfully deploy causal and modal reasoning, they possess concepts that cannot be reduced to qualities of the soul, refuting the exclusivity claim.
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    Incredibly, Crathorn affirms that whenever one is thinking of a white thing, the mind of that person actually becomes white. His notion of similarity is strict and uncompromising. Mental concepts cannot resemble substances but only qualities of substances (I Sent., q. 1, concl. 7) because the species of substance would have to be a substance itself and our minds would turn into a new substance if we thought of it. It also cannot be a pure quantity because in thinking of infinite magnitudes, our
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