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    Challenges→Universals exist extra animam and in act in individuals, being really identical with but formally distinct from them, and can be signified by various linguistic expressions

    If universality and individuality are formally distinct in re, then one entity simultaneously instantiates contradictory modes of being without a principium individuationis.

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    • 1.Entities exhibit both universal properties (humanity) and particular traits (this person's unique history) simultaneously without reduction to either.
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    • 2.Without formal distinction in re, universals collapse into nominalism or particulars into Platonic abstraction—both metaphysically implausible.
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    • 3.Apparent contradiction dissolves if we recognize distinct modes of being as complementary aspects rather than competing instantiations.
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    • 1.A principium individuationis is precisely what explains how one entity avoids contradictory modes; denying it renders the problem unsolved, not solved.
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    • 2.Formal distinction in re between universality and individuality requires independent existence; but universals qua universals cannot exist independently in particulars.
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    • 3.Invoking 'modes of being' merely relabels the contradiction without addressing whether distinct modes can coherently inhere in a single substance.
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