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    It is not the case that If essences can be understood as indifferent to existence — as Avicenna and Scotus also argued — then the difference between instantiated and uninstantiated natures is not a difference within being but a difference between being and its absence.

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    • 1.Uninstantiated essences appear to be abstract objects with no causal efficacy, raising questions about their ontological status.
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    • 2.If essences are truly indifferent to existence, it's unclear why existence should ever attach to them rather than remaining absent.
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    • 3.Treating existence as external to essence may conflate epistemic access with metaphysical composition, confusing concepts with reality.
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    • 1.Essences are intelligible objects that can be grasped mentally independent of whether they exist in reality.
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    • 2.Existence adds nothing to the essence itself—it only actualizes what was already fully determinate in thought.
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    • 3.This distinction preserves divine freedom: God understands all possible essences before choosing which to actualize.
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