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    Challenges→Secondary causes possessing real productive powers, as Aquinas defended via instrumental causality, is coherent with divine primacy and does not require reducing created agents to mere occasions.

    The doctrine requires distinguishing God's action from creatures' actions at the metaphysical level without clear criteria, risking incoherence about what 'real productive power' means.

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    Key Terms

    Doctrine(refers to the teachings being passed down)
    A set of beliefs or principles that a philosopher or group teaches and believes to be true.
    God's action(as used in philosophy of religion)
    In theology, the ways God intervenes, creates, or causes things to happen in the world.
    Productive power(as used in metaphysics)
    The ability to create, produce, or bring things into existence. Think of it like a factory's capacity to make products.
    creatures' actions(as used in theology and philosophy)
    The choices and behaviors of living beings (humans, animals, etc.)—anything that isn't God.
    incoherence(Illustrated by the coexistence of pro-slavery compromises and democratic/equality principles in the US Constitution.)

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    The condition in which a legal or constitutional document contains provisions that are mutually inconsistent or in tension, resulting from the competing interests of those who drafted it.
    metaphysical(Ayer's Logical Positivist usage)
    Language that purports to refer beyond the physical world and lacks empirical consequences, which Ayer classifies as not literally significant

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