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    It is not the case that Pomponazzi argued in De Immortalitate Animae that the soul's mortality follows demonstrably from Aristotelian naturalism, making the alternation a contingent historical fact, not providential necessity.

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    • 1.Aristotle explicitly distinguished the intellect (nous) as potentially separable, preserving room for an immortal rational faculty.
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    • 2.Pomponazzi's claim that immortality is 'contingent' rather than 'providentially necessary' requires but doesn't establish that it's false or merely historical.
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    • 3.Naturalizing the soul doesn't eliminate metaphysical possibility of immortality—it only removes theological guarantees, leaving the question open.
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    • 1.Aristotle's hylomorphism treats the soul as the form of a physical body, making its existence dependent on material substrate.
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    • 2.If the soul's operations require bodily organs (sensation, imagination), then its separability from body becomes empirically unjustifiable.
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    • 3.Christian dogma about immortality served political interests, suggesting theological necessity claims masked contingent historical positions.
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