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    It is not the case that Kilwardby's Augustinian-Platonic inheritance identifies demonstrative universals with rationes aeternae, stable in the divine intellect and immune to the variability infecting abstracted forms.

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    • 1.Identifying universals with divine ideas creates epistemological gap: how do finite minds access God's intellect without independent criteria?
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    • 2.Aristotelian abstraction better explains how we derive universals from variable particulars without requiring supernatural access to eternal forms.
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    • 3.The claim conflates logical necessity with metaphysical stability; formal universals need not inhabit God's mind to remain demonstratively valid.
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    • 1.Divine intellect provides necessary, unchanging standards for knowledge, avoiding relativism inherent in mind-dependent abstracted forms.
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    • 2.Platonic rationes aeternae ground objective universals independent of human cognition, preserving realism about mathematical and logical truths.
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    • 3.Augustinian theology requires eternal divine ideas as archetypes; equating these with demonstrative universals unifies metaphysics and theology.
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