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    Pure perfections are not coextensive with being. — Carmelics
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    Pure perfections are not coextensive with being.

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    • 1.God is wise and Socrates is wise, but earthworms are not wise.
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    • 2.Earthworms are beings.
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    • 3.If wisdom were coextensive with being, all beings including earthworms would be wise.
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    • 1.Thomistic metaphysics holds that being is analogical, not univocal, so 'being' already implies graduated perfection across all entities.
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    • 2.If being is intrinsically analogical, then a being's degree of perfection is constitutive of its mode of being, making perfection coextensive with being by definition.
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    • 3.Scotus's counterexample about earthworms presupposes univocal being, which an Thomistic analogist would deny as the relevant framework for assessing coextensiveness.
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    • 1.Neoplatonic emanationism, as in Plotinus's Enneads, treats all being as a graduated participation in the One, which is identical with absolute perfection.
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    • 2.If every being exists precisely insofar as it participates in perfection, then the extension of being and the extension of perfection necessarily coincide, differing only in degree.
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    • 3.Earthworms, on this account, do not lack wisdom absolutely but instantiate it deficiently, which is compatible with wisdom being coextensive with being.
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    The study of being qua being includes, first of all, the study of the transcendentals, so called because they transcend the division of being into finite and infinite, and the further division of finite being into the ten Aristotelian categories. Being itself is a transcendental, and so are the “proper attributes” of being—one, true, and good—which are coextensive with being. Scotus also identifies an indefinite number of disjunctions that are coextensive with being and therefore count as transc
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