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    It is not the case that Human conceptual ability is limited to natural concepts of qualities.

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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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    • 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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