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    It is not the case that Perfect power is generically identical with any submaximal 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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    • 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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