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    It is not the case that If 'homo' signified a common nature existing in re, two humans would share a numerically identical entity, generating the absurdity of one thing being in two places.

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    • 1.Abstract entities (like numbers) aren't spatially located; common natures needn't obey spatial uniqueness constraints.
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    • 2.Aristotelian forms exist as immanent universals in particulars without being literally multiplied—one essence, multiply instantiated.
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    • 3.The argument equivocates 'being in two places' with 'existing in multiple individuals'; these are logically distinct phenomena.
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    • 1.Numerical identity requires being in one place at one time; shared natures would violate this principle of non-ubiquity.
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    • 2.If humanity exists as a single entity in Socrates and Plato, it must either be wholly in each or partially distributed, both absurd.
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    • 3.Medieval nominalists observed that only particular instances exist concretely; universals in re face mereological impossibility.
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