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Perfect power is generically identical with any submaxima... — Carmelics

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Perfect power is generically identical with any submaximal degree of power.

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1.Power is an attribute that admits of degrees.
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2.Perfect power is quite naturally viewed as the maximal degree of power.
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1.Generic identity requires that two things share all essential properties, not merely that one is the limit of the other's scale.
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2.A maximal degree of a property differs in kind from submaximal degrees when the maximum involves no potentiality or limitation whatsoever.
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3.Aquinas's actus purus doctrine holds that pure actuality is categorically distinct from beings that merely approximate it along a continuum.
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1.If perfect power entails necessary existence and aseity, it cannot be generically identical with contingent powers that lack these modal properties.
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2.Scotus argued that infinite being is not the upper bound of a univocal scale but a qualitatively distinct mode of being that transforms every attribute predicated of it.
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At first glance, this may appear to be a senseless suggestion. Power is an attribute that admits of degrees. Perfect power is therefore quite naturally viewed as the maximal degree of power. So viewed, perfect power is generically identical with any submaximal degree of power. According to Miller, however, there is an important distinction between a limit simpliciter and a limit case. A limit simpliciter differs merely in degree from that of which it is the limit simpliciter, whereas a limit case differs absolutely from that of which it is the limit case. Thus the limit simpliciter of an F is ...

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