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    It is not the case that Humans either have several souls, or one substantially composite soul whose parts are 'incomplete' substances that combine to form one 'perfected' soul.

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    • 1.Aquinas argued that a single substantial form (anima intellectiva) suffices to account for all vital operations in a human being.
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    • 2.Positing multiple souls or composite soul-parts violates Ockham's razor by multiplying entities beyond explanatory necessity.
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    • 3.If the intellective soul can perform vegetative and sensitive functions, no additional soul-forms are required to explain human unity.
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    • 1.Aristotle's De Anima establishes that the soul is the form of the body, making it ontologically simple and indivisible as a unitary actuality.
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    • 2.An 'incomplete substance' that combines with others to form a perfected substance is not a substance at all, but a part—contradicting hylomorphic categories.
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    • A human being has at least one substantial form rooted in matter and another substantial form that comes from an external source.
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