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    The supporting argument's move from 'only true substance' to 'being in general' is a non-sequitur: a unique substance is maximally particular, not maximally general.

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    • 1.Particularity and generality are inverse properties: what is maximally unique cannot simultaneously instantiate universal categories.
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    • 2.A substance that is 'only true substance' is singular and unrepeatable, whereas 'being in general' applies to all possible existents.
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    • 3.Logical validity requires that conclusions follow from premises; jumping from singular instance to universal category violates this principle.
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    • 1.A unique substance could ground all being through its nature, making it both maximally particular and the ground of generality itself.
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    • 2.'Being in general' may refer not to universality but to the foundational principle of existence, which a unique substance could embody.
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    • 3.The argument conflates 'generality' (universal application) with 'fundamentality' (foundational status); only substance is fundamental, not universal.
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