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    Challenges→A being by substance is not a being by participation.

    If the claim relies on the convertibility of being and essence in God, then the distinction between 'being by substance' and 'being by participation' presupposes a categorial framework inapplicable to the divine nature.

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    • 1.Aristotelian categories (substance, accident, etc.) derive from analysis of composite beings, making them inapplicable to God's absolute simplicity.
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    • 2.If being and essence are identical in God, then distinguishing 'by substance' from 'by participation' imports a real distinction God cannot possess.
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    • 3.Participatory ontology requires a gap between cause and effect that divine aseity logically precludes.
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    • 1.Analogy allows categorial frameworks to apply to God non-univocally without requiring God to exemplify creaturely composition.
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    • 2.The distinction between 'by substance' and 'by participation' describes the creatures' mode of being, not God's internal structure.
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    • 3.Convertibility of being and essence in God is compatible with using substance language to denote what creatures receive from God's act of being.
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    Key Terms

    Categorial framework(metaphysics and logic)
    A system of basic categories or concepts used to organize and understand how things work—like sorting things into 'substances,' 'qualities,' 'relationships,' etc.
    Convertibility of being and essence(medieval theology and metaphysics)
    The idea that in God, what something IS (its essence) is identical to the fact that it EXISTS (its being)—unlike in created things where these are separate.
    being by participation(Contrasted with being by substance/essence)
    A being that is other than its being; anything that is caused.
    being by substance(Identified by William with God/the Christian Trinity)
    A being that is its being (identical with its being); a being by essence.
    divine nature(Distinguishes the divine nature from the three persons, which are compound substances)
    A reality that is both a property and a simple (non-compound) substance, shared as the matter-constituent in each of the three divine persons

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