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    It is not the case that The concept of truth is the concept of being that is undivided from a 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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    • 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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