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    It is not the case that The Scholastic perfection-transfer principle assumes a univocal relationship between cause and effect, but Aquinas himself acknowledged analogical predication, which severs the strict entailment that effects must share perfections with their causes.

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    • 1.Aquinas's analogy of being still requires that causes genuinely produce perfections in effects, maintaining causal efficacy.
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    • 2.The claim conflates epistemological analogy (how we know perfections) with ontological causation (what causes produce in effects).
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    • 3.Medieval texts show Aquinas preserves the perfection-transfer principle even within analogical frameworks—analogy supplements rather than severs it.
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    • 1.Aquinas explicitly endorses analogical predication in Summa Theologiae I.13, distinguishing it from univocal predication.
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    • 2.If effects univocally shared all perfections with causes, God would possess finitude, potentiality, and materiality from creation.
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    • 3.Analogical causation allows perfections to be present formally in God but only participated in creatures, resolving the univocity tension.
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