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    It is not the case that What can change is not a perfect case of being.

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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