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    The concept of truth is the concept of being that is undivided from a formal cause.

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    • 1.Truth involves the idea of the formal cause — the cause in virtue of which matter is enformed and a thing becomes what it is.
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    • 2.Things are true (genuine instances of their kind) to the extent that they instantiate the form of things of that kind.
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    • 3.Deriving truth requires adding to the concept of being the notion of the appropriate cause, specifically the formal cause.
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    • 1.Truth is primarily a property of propositions or judgments, not of things — as Aquinas himself distinguishes in De Veritate Q.1.
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    • 2.Formal causes belong to ontology, not to the logical structure of predication where truth-bearers and truth-makers must be carefully distinguished.
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    • 3.Conflating ontological constitution with epistemic correspondence collapses a distinction Aristotle preserves in Categories and Metaphysics Gamma.
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    • 1.If truth just is undividedness from a formal cause, then artifacts and biological monstrosities lacking full form would be straightforwardly false, not merely imperfect — an absurd result.
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    • 2.Tarski's material adequacy condition shows truth must satisfy schema T independently of causal or essentialist considerations about the truth-bearer's nature.
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    Philip adopts the second notion of convertibility. The various transcendentals do not differ in reality, only in concept. The concept of being is fundamental in that the concepts of the other transcendentals presuppose it. However, the concepts of all of the other transcendentals add a certain basic notion to the notion of being in order to differentiate them from being (see Aertsen 2012, MacDonald 1992). This basic notion is the notion of being that is undivided. Because this is a purely negati
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