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    Challenges→The formal reality of an idea, understood as an operation of the mind, cannot be greater than the formal reality of the mind itself.

    If ideas are modes of an infinite attribute (Thought), their formal reality is grounded in infinite substance, not merely the finite mind.

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    • 1.Finite minds cannot generate formal reality of ideas; only infinite substance possesses the productive power to ground being.
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    • 2.Ideas as modes of Thought attribute participate in infinite nature; their intelligibility requires infinite rather than finite source.
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    • 3.Grounding ideas in finite minds creates regress problem; infinite substance as single source avoids infinite chains of dependency.
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    • 1.Finite minds demonstrably generate ideas through perception and cognition; grounding in infinite substance seems explanatorily idle.
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    • 2.Infinite substance cannot literally contain all particular ideas without collapsing distinctions between ideas or infinite attribute.
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    • 3.If ideas derive formal reality from infinite substance alone, mind's role becomes metaphysically obscure and causally inert.
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