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    Predication with respect to quiddity must be of a composi... — Carmelics
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    Predication with respect to quiddity must be of a composite being.

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    • 1.Quiddity answers the question 'why this of that?', requiring a 'that' of which 'this' is predicated.
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    • 2.For the question 'why this?' to be meaningful, there must be a distinct 'that' to which 'this' belongs.
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    • 3.This structure of predication requires composition — a subject ('that') and its formal determination ('this').
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    • 1.Absolute simplicity in God entails that divine quiddity is identical to divine esse, admitting no real distinction between subject and form.
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    • 2.Where quiddity and existence are identical, the predicative structure presupposing a 'that' distinct from 'this' collapses into self-predication, not composition.
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    • 3.Aquinas's doctrine of subsistent esse in God demonstrates that quidditative predication can be self-grounding without requiring a composite substrate.
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    • 1.Scotus's formal distinction allows real differences between aspects of a simple being without introducing ontological composition in the Aristotelian sense.
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    • 2.If formally distinct quidditative determinations can inhere in a numerically simple entity, the inference from predicative structure to compositeness fails.
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    According to Dietrich quiddity is properly defined as the formal determination of a being, giving it its specific intrinsic character by means of which it can also be known. Strictly speaking, therefore, quiddity is found only in composite beings since it implies a formal aspect of a being. Unlike Aquinas Dietrich will not allow quiddity to designate the whole composite, even if the designation is understood to be abstract. Strictly speaking, therefore, quiddity is not applied to simple beings.
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