If the First possesses the internal capacity or potency to produce emanations, this constitutes a real intrinsic distinction between the First qua potential cause and qua actual being.
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(Christological reduplicative strategy for handling incompatible properties)
A grammatical modifier meaning 'with respect to' or 'in virtue of', used to index a predication to a specific nature.
the First(Fârâbî's metaphysics of the first principle)
The ultimate first cause whose essence is identical with that by which it knows and by which other things arise from it; it cannot be affected or moved, and requires nothing beyond its own essence to produce its initial effect