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    It is not the case that If changeable things genuinely exist, they instantiate being fully, not deficiently, since partial being is incoherent.

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    • 1.Entities can have genuine existence while possessing limited properties or potentiality—existence admits degrees without incoherence.
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    • 2.Changeable things exhibit properties progressively or incompletely (potentiality vs. actuality), showing that partial instantiation is metaphysically real.
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    • 3.The claim conflates 'being' (existence itself) with 'determinacy' (complete actualization), but these are distinct categories allowing partial being.
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    • 1.Being is a fundamental property that cannot be divided into degrees without logical contradiction—something either instantiates it or does not.
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    • 2.Changeable things persist through time and causally interact with reality, which requires full ontological status, not a deficient mode of existence.
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    • 3.If partial being were coherent, we'd need criteria distinguishing degrees of being, but no such framework avoids circularity or infinite regress.
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