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    It is not the case that Speusippus's apophatic move thus severs the causal-generative link the One is invoked to explain, making the theory explanatorily vacuous rather than admirably transcendent.

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    • 1.Explanatory vacuity and transcendence are not mutually exclusive; some ultimate principles may require apophatic description for coherence.
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    • 2.The One's causal role may work through emanation or overflow rather than efficient causation, evading the traditional causality requirement.
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    • 3.Demanding positive predicates for explanatory adequacy may itself rest on unexamined assumptions about causality's rational intelligibility.
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    • 1.If the One is utterly transcendent and unknowable, positing it as a causal explanation merely relocates mystery rather than resolving it.
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    • 2.Explanatory theories require intelligible mechanisms; apophatic negation of all predicates from the One blocks any such mechanism.
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    • 3.Platonist metaphysics demands that first principles illuminate derivative reality; radical apophaticism leaves derivation unintelligible.
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