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    Challenges→Physical objects participate in and point towards incorporeal Beauty

    The inference from 'physical particulars share a property' to 'an incorporeal universal of that property exists' commits the One Over Many fallacy without additional justification.

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    One Over Many fallacy(as used in logic and metaphysics)
    A logical mistake where you assume that because many individual things share a common feature, there must be one special non-physical thing that explains that shared feature—without proving this assumption is true.
    Physical particulars(as used in metaphysics)
    Specific, concrete physical things you can touch or locate in space and time, like individual chairs or atoms—as opposed to abstract ideas or non-physical things.
    incorporeal(as used in metaphysics)
    Something that has no physical body or material form—it exists as pure spirit or consciousness rather than as matter you can touch.
    inference(Nyāya epistemology)
    A component of epistemology in Nyāya philosophy; a veritable inference yields knowledge about the world and must have premises that are themselves known

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    property(Locke's demonstration of the moral proposition 'Where there is no property, there is no injustice.')
    A right to something.
    universal(Argument for the generality of Turing machines)
    A computing system capable of simulating any other computing system of the same or lesser power; used here to describe Turing machines as the most general model of computation.

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