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    It is not the case that Mapping Latin scholastic causality onto Daoist cosmogony imports Aristotelian substance ontology that Daoist metaphysics explicitly rejects.

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    • 1.Some comparative philosophy requires provisional conceptual bridges; rejecting all translation risks making traditions mutually unintelligible.
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    • 2.Daoism itself is not metaphysically unified—later commentaries show internal debate about whether Dao is substance-like or purely relational.
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    • 3.The claim assumes scholastic causality is monolithic; nuanced readings find compatibilities with process-oriented Daoist thinking.
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    • 1.Aristotelian causality requires substances with essences; Daoism denies fixed essences and prioritizes relationality and process.
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    • 2.Scholastic frameworks treat causes as efficient agents; Daoist cosmogony emphasizes wu-wei (non-action) and spontaneous emergence.
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    • 3.Direct translation risks anachronism: importing medieval Christian metaphysical assumptions distorts indigenous Chinese philosophical categories.
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