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    It is not the case that There must be some properties that God and creatures share.

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    • 1.Analogical predication allows theological language to be meaningful without requiring genuinely shared univocal properties between God and creatures.
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    • 2.Aquinas's doctrine of analogy entails that terms like 'good' apply to God and creatures in neither identical nor wholly equivocal senses, preserving real reference without shared properties.
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    • 3.A relation of proportionality or causal dependence can ground meaningful God-talk even where no single property is instantiated by both relata.
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    • 1.Divine ineffability traditions (Pseudo-Dionysius, Maimonides) hold that God transcends all creaturely categories, yet relation to creatures is preserved through God's causal primacy alone.
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    • 2.A cause can stand in a real productive relation to its effects without sharing any intrinsic property with them, as efficient causation does not require a common attribute between agent and patient.
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    • 1.If God shares no properties with creatures, then God is wholly other than creatures and out of all relation to them.
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    • 2.God cannot be wholly other than creatures and out of all relation to them.
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