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    It is not the case that 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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    Reason for 1 of 2
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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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