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    It is not the case that The fact that a concept picks out a single individual does not entail that the concept is not general or mediate.

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    • 1.A representation is singular if its reference is fixed by the object itself rather than by satisfaction of descriptive conditions, regardless of how many objects satisfy those conditions.
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    • 2.The concept <God> in rational theology functions as a singular term whose reference is stipulated rather than descriptively determined, making generality a grammatical facade over a logically singular representation.
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    • 3.Kant's own distinction between determinable and fully determined concepts in the Transcendental Ideal suggests <God> is the omnitudo realitatis—a concept exhausted by one object by necessity, which undermines its classification as genuinely general.
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    • 1.John Stuart Mill's distinction between connotation and denotation entails that a concept with null or singleton denotation but substantive connotation remains general only if its connotation could in principle apply to multiple objects.
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    • 2.If the uniqueness of an individual is necessary rather than contingent—as with God or the number 1—the concept's extension cannot be expanded even hypothetically, dissolving the generality that Kant's account requires.
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    • 3.Frege's context principle notwithstanding, a concept that admits no coherent plurality of instances fails the criterion for genuine conceptual generality and instead functions as a disguised proper name.
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    • 1.The concept <God> picks out a single individual, yet it is a general, mediate representation.
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    • 2.God is represented through other concepts, such as <substance>, making <God> a mediate representation.
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    • 3.<God> is general because it places God within a broader class, namely the class of substances.
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