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    What can change is not a perfect case of being. — Carmelics
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    Supports→God cannot change (God is immutable).

    What can change is not a perfect case of being.

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    • What can change does not have its being so securely that it cannot cease to be what it is.
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    • 1.Heraclitean and process traditions hold that change is constitutive of being, not a privation of it.
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    • 2.If all existing things in the natural order are changeable, then changeability is a mark of being, not its absence.
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    • 3.Augustine's argument presupposes a Platonic hierarchy of being that is itself a contested metaphysical posit, not a neutral premise.
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    • 1.Being is not a univocal property admitting of degrees, but a categorical status that a thing either has or lacks.
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    • 2.If changeable things genuinely exist, they instantiate being fully, not deficiently, since partial being is incoherent.
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    Augustine, De trinitate V, 2
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    Augustine gave a powerful impetus to Christian acceptance of DDI. As he saw it (De trinitate V, 2), a God who gave His very name as “I am” and is perfect must be the perfect case of being. But what can change, Augustine thought, is not a perfect case of being: it does not have its being so securely that it cannot cease to be what it is.
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    Validity: The passage explicitly presents the premise as Augustine's reasoning for why what can change is not a perfect case of being, using the colon to indicate an explanatory relationship between the two claims.

    Confidence: Clearly stated reasoning attributed to Augustine.

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