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    It is not the case that Participation (methexis) in a higher being constitutes genuine ontological closeness even across an infinite qualitative difference.

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    • 1.Infinite qualitative difference logically entails no meaningful commonality; participation requires some similarity.
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    • 2.Participation language obscures rather than explains how ontologically incommensurable things genuinely relate.
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    • 3.Causal influence alone doesn't establish ontological closeness—a clockmaker remains ontologically distant from clock.
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    • 1.Causal influence from higher being on lower demonstrates real connection transcending categorical distance.
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    • 2.Shared participation in abstract universals (goodness, being itself) creates genuine ontological relation.
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    • 3.Infinite qualitative difference concerns properties, not the metaphysical relation of dependence itself.
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