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    Challenges→Albert the Great's and Aquinas's positions on the soul are in conflict.

    If Albert's position evolved across his corpus, attributing a single fixed view to him that conflicts with Aquinas commits the fallacy of ignoring diachronic development in a thinker's work.

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    Albert(as a historical philosopher being discussed)
    This refers to Albert the Great (or Albertus Magnus), a medieval philosopher and theologian from the 1200s who wrote extensively on logic, science, and theology.
    Aquinas
    Thomas Aquinas was a medieval Italian priest and philosopher (1225-1274) who became one of the most influential thinkers in Western history. He attempted to show that Christian faith and human reason are compatible, arguing that we can use logic and observation to understand God and the natural world. His ideas deeply shaped Catholic theology and continue to influence how religious and secular institutions think about ethics, knowledge, and the relationship between science and belief.
    corpus(Distinguished from preliminary, inconclusive, or suspicion-generating findings that have not yet achieved full scientific proof)
    The established body of accepted scientific knowledge that meets the threshold for scientific proof and serves as the basis for standard evidence-based policy-making.
    diachronic development(referring to how Albert's views may have shifted throughout his career)

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    Changes in a person's ideas and beliefs over time; recognizing that thinkers often grow, change their minds, or refine their positions as they write more.
    fallacy(Whately's definition, Elements of Logic, Bk. III, intro.)
    Any unsound mode of arguing which appears to demand conviction and to be decisive of the question at hand, when in fairness it is not

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