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    If 'persona' tracks a formal distinction grounded in trin... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Terms like 'chimaera' and 'persona' are common in a less proper way.

    If 'persona' tracks a formal distinction grounded in trinitarian real relations, it signifies a nature with genuine ontological footing, not merely a nominal commonality.

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    • 1.Real relations (not merely mental constructs) constitute the Father, Son, and Spirit as distinct subsistences in classical trinitarian theology.
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    • 2.If distinctions are grounded in real relations, the terms designating those distinctions must correspond to genuinely differentiated ontological features.
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    • 3.Nominal commonalities lack explanatory power for the irreducibility of three subsistences within one substance—only real distinctions suffice.
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    • 1.The concept of 'real relations' in trinitarian metaphysics remains philosophically contested and may conflate logical with ontological priority.
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    • 2.A nature can be genuinely unified while its instantiations remain formally distinct without requiring each distinction to ground in 'real relations.'
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    • 3.The claim equivocates between 'persona' as metaphysical category and 'persona' as theological designation without establishing their identity conditions.
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