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    It is not the case that The proposition 'homo est animal' would still be true even if no human being actually existed outside the soul.

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    • 1.Truth requires a truthmaker: for 'homo est animal' to be true, something in reality must ground the predication.
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    • 2.If no humans exist outside the soul, no extramental nature exists to serve as truthmaker for the essential connection.
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    • 3.A proposition whose truthmaker exists only within cognition is not true simpliciter but only intentionally or conceptually true.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Ockham's razor demands we not posit common natures as real entities distinct from individual substances and minds.
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    • 2.If 'common nature' names only a concept in the soul, 'homo est animal' reduces to a relation between mental terms, not a mind-independent truth.
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    • 3.A proposition expressing only a relation between mental terms cannot be true independently of the existence of minds entertaining it.
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    • 1.'Animal' is predicated of 'human being' in virtue of the common nature.
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    • 2.Predications of common nature do not require actual individual existence to be true.
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