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    It is not the case that The real distinction proof cannot be fully defended if humanity is ignorant about the essence of the soul

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    • 1.The real distinction proof depends on abstractive processes that require access to the essence of the soul
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    • 2.Norris claims humans have no access to God's idea of the mind
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    • 3.The mind's existence is known only by inner consciousness or sentiment, not by its essence
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Descartes' real distinction proof requires conceiving mind and body as complete substances with fully grasped natures, not mere functional differences.
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    • 2.Norris explicitly holds that human minds cannot access the divine archetype of the soul, leaving its essential nature epistemically opaque.
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    • 3.Without epistemic access to the soul's essence, the modal conceivability argument for real distinction collapses into mere phenomenal reporting.
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    • 1.Locke argued in the Essay that we have no idea of substance itself, only its sensible qualities, making essence-based metaphysical proofs unavailable to finite minds.
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    • 2.If inner consciousness yields only that the mind exists, not what it is, then any proof requiring the mind's essential incompatibility with extension lacks its key premise.
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