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    If essence and existence are really distinct and enter in... — Carmelics
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    If essence and existence are really distinct and enter into real composition, then a thing that lacks or loses its existential being also lacks or loses its essential being.

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    • 1.Essence and existence are really distinct from one another and enter into real composition with one another.
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    • 2.One is not separable from the other so as to exist apart from it.
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    • 1.Essence and existence can be really distinct as modes without requiring that the loss of one entails the annihilation of the other.
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    • 2.A dissolved substance retains its essential definition as an object of intellect and divine knowledge even when it ceases to actually exist.
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    • 3.Avicenna's distinction between essence considered in itself and essence as instantiated shows essences have a neutral status independent of existential act.
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    • 1.Aquinas holds that in God essence and existence are identical, yet creatures' essences persist as real possibilities in the divine intellect after they perish.
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    • 2.If essential being were wholly annihilated with existential being, resurrection and re-identification of numerically the same individual would be metaphysically unintelligible.
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    Godfrey briefly refers to this issue in Quodlibet II, q. 2, while attempting to determine whether the essence of a creature is indifferent to existence and nonexistence. He comments that either essence is really identical with existence and differs from it (1) only conceptually or (2) intentionally, or else (3) existence is a distinct thing, i.e., the act of the essence and really distinct from it (PB 2.60). In Quodlibet IV, q. 2, he was asked to determine whether to hold that predicamental thin
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