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    Supports→Simplicity does not entail infinity

    Scotus's own haecceity doctrine establishes that intrinsic individuation is compatible with simplicity, and individuated entities are paradigmatically finite, showing simplicity permits finitude.

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    Key Terms

    Compatible with(as used in logic and philosophy generally)
    Able to exist or be true at the same time without contradicting each other. Two ideas are compatible if one doesn't rule out the other.
    Doctrine(refers to the teachings being passed down)
    A set of beliefs or principles that a philosopher or group teaches and believes to be true.
    Finitude(describing a specific factual question about the universe (whether it's limited or endless))
    The quality of having limits or boundaries; being finite rather than infinite.
    Intrinsic individuation(what the haecceity doctrine supposedly allows)
    The idea that something can be uniquely individual based on its own inner nature, rather than just by how it compares to other things.
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    In a way that serves as a perfect or typical example of something; acting as a model or standard case.
    Scotus (John Duns Scotus)(The statement refers to his specific argument about knowledge)
    A medieval philosopher who developed arguments about how we know things, particularly about what counts as real knowledge versus just having beliefs.
    Simplicity(Doctrine of the simple reality)
    An attribute of perfection that denies any contingent facet to God
    haecceity(Metaphysics of modality and personal identity)
    The property of being that very individual; for individual a, the haecceity is the property of being a

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