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    It is not the case that Synderesis is best characterized as a dispositional potentiality, not purely a disposition or purely a potentiality.

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    • 1.Aquinas treats synderesis as a habitus—a stable, actualized disposition—not a mere potentiality awaiting actualization.
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    • 2.If synderesis were a potentiality, it could fail to incline toward good, but Aquinas explicitly denies synderesis ever errs or is extinguished.
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    • 3.A capacity that necessarily and always inclines toward its object is definitionally a disposition, making the 'dispositional potentiality' hybrid category redundant.
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    • 1.Philip the Chancellor's distinction between synderesis as potentia and conscientia as actus already accounts for the dual-mode behavior without collapsing both into a single hybrid category.
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    • 2.Positing a 'dispositional potentiality' multiplies ontological categories beyond necessity when the potentia/actus distinction from the existing Scholastic framework suffices.
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    • 1.Synderesis functions qua disposition in relation to proheresis and the impulse to sin.
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    • 2.Synderesis functions qua potentiality in relation to free choice and sensuality.
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    • 3.Something that operates in both modes simultaneously is neither a bare disposition nor a bare potentiality, but a dispositional potentiality.
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