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    The contradiction only arises if 'being' is univocal acro... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The notion of God as self-subsistent Being (both Being itself and a being) is contradictory to the discursive intellect.

    The contradiction only arises if 'being' is univocal across God and creatures, but Aquinas explicitly rejects univocity in favor of analogical predication.

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    • 1.Univocal predication requires identical meanings; God's being differs infinitely from creatures, so univocity is logically incoherent.
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    • 2.Analogy preserves both God's transcendence and our ability to speak meaningfully about God without reducing Him to creatures.
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    • 3.Medieval logic shows that contradictions arise only when the same property holds identically in subject and predicate across different beings.
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    • 1.Analogical predication is semantically obscure—it's unclear how analogy avoids either univocity or complete equivocation in practice.
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    • 2.If 'being' means something entirely different for God versus creatures, then statements like 'God exists' convey no determinate meaning.
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    • 3.The analogy solution merely relocates the problem: explaining the relationship between analogates requires justifying shared intelligibility somewhere.
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