The Thomistic resolution—that effects differ due to their finite receptive capacity, not from plurality in the cause—demonstrates that causal differentiation need not entail complexity in the cause.
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cause(Philosophical definition of causation requiring both sufficiency and necessity of the cause relative to its effect)
An event or state of things such that (a) if it happens or exists, the effect must happen or exist even if no further conditions are fulfilled, and (b) the effect cannot happen or exist unless the cause happens or exists.
finite(Bradley's metaphysics)
An entity that has something that limits it.
plurality(Arendt's anthropological framework linking human conditions to activities)
The fact that men, not Man, live on the earth and inhabit the world — referring both to equality (all human beings belong to the same species and are sufficiently alike to understand one another) and distinction (no two human beings are ever interchangeable, each being an individual with a unique biography and perspective on the world)