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    Challenges→Private property rights are valid but are subject to a duty to distribute one's surplus (superflua).

    The concept of 'superflua' presupposes a determinate standard of sufficiency appropriate to one's vocation, but no such standard can be specified without a normative authority competent to set it, generating a regress problem.

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    Presupposes(as describing what Plantinga's argument takes for granted)
    Assumes something to be true without proving it—like how an argument might presuppose that logic works, without first arguing that logic is valid.
    Regress problem(epistemology/justification)
    A logical puzzle where you need proof for your proof, and proof for that proof, going back forever with no way to stop and actually prove anything.
    Superflua(Used in Aquinas' account of the duty to distribute surplus private property)
    Everything one possesses beyond what one needs to keep oneself and one's family in the state of life appropriate to one's (and their) vocation(s).
    competent(as used in epistemology)
    Skilled, qualified, or capable enough to do something properly and make valid judgments about it.

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    determinate standard(as used in epistemology and ethics)
    A clear, specific, and definite rule or measure that can be pinned down, rather than something vague or uncertain.
    normative authority(whether something has the right to guide how we understand things)
    The legitimate power or right to tell us what we should think, believe, or do.
    sufficiency(Used in Johnson's account as a broader standard than deductive validity)
    A criterion of cogent argument that replaces deductive validity, requiring that premises provide adequate support for the conclusion
    vocation(as used in ethics and philosophy of work)
    A person's job, profession, or calling—the work they are meant to do or have chosen to do.

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