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    It is not the case that The claim that there is only one God is true only of the conceptual unity of the universal nature of divinity, not of three numerically identical substances

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    Reasons For

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    Reason for 1 of 2
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    • 1.Gregory of Nyssa's 'That There Are Not Three Gods' explicitly argues that 'God' names a shared nature, yet insists this does not entail tritheism through numerical plurality of substances.
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    • 2.If divine unity were merely conceptual universality, Gregory's anti-tritheist argument would collapse into nominalism about divine nature, which Gregory himself explicitly rejects.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Athanasius and the Nicene tradition grounded the homoousios in ontological identity of substance, not merely generic resemblance between three numerically distinct individuals.
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    • 2.A conceptual or universal unity of the kind Philoponus proposes is indistinguishable from the Arian and Eunomian position that the three are united only by category, which the Council of Nicaea condemned.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.When Basil and Gregory of Nyssa spoke of 'one ousía, three hypostáseis,' they used 'ousía' in the secondary, abstract sense of essence or universal nature, not as a primary substance
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    • 2.Universals exist only in the mind and not as mind-independent individual entities
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