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    It is not the case that If all existing things in the natural order are changeable, then changeability is a mark of being, not its absence.

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    • 1.Changeability depends on metaphysical composition and dependency; unchanging foundational elements may be more ontologically basic than composite things.
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    • 2.Being as such could be defined by actuality and self-sufficiency; change logically indicates incompleteness and reliance on external causation.
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    • 3.The claim confuses universal prevalence with metaphysical status; that all things change doesn't show change constitutes being rather than reflects limitation.
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    • 1.Being and non-being are not opposites; potentiality is a genuine mode of existence distinct from both actualization and negation.
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    • 2.Change requires a subject that persists through transformation; changeability presupposes the reality and continuity of that subject.
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    • 3.If changeability were a deficiency, immutable things would be more real, yet immutability in nature appears only in abstractions, not things.
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