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    Challenges→The fact that a concept picks out a single individual does not entail that the concept is not general or mediate.

    If the uniqueness of an individual is necessary rather than contingent—as with God or the number 1—the concept's extension cannot be expanded even hypothetically, dissolving the generality that Kant's account requires.

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    Key Terms

    God(Classical theism; used to fix the referent of 'G' in the Bayesian formulation)
    An eternal, personal being of maximal power, knowledge, and goodness who created the universe
    Kant(as used in epistemology and metaphysics)
    Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was an influential German philosopher who argued that our minds shape how we experience reality, and that we can only truly know things as they appear to us, not as they are in themselves.
    Necessary(ontological distinction in Mulla Sadra's metaphysics)
    The principle, God; pure existence without essence, quality or property that undergoes change or motion
    Uniqueness(Violated if there are infinitely many forms of oneness, since that entails more than one form corresponds to the property of being one.)
    The principle that there is at most one form corresponding to any given property.

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    contingent(De Interpretatione 12–13)
    Equated with 'possible'; on the two-sided interpretation, contingency excludes necessity (possibility implies non-necessity).
    extension(Semantics and philosophy of language)
    Another term for reference, i.e., the object or set of objects a term picks out
    generality(The statement suggests the claim doesn't work as broadly as it seems to.)
    The quality of applying broadly or widely to many cases; when something is general, it works across different situations rather than just one specific case.

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