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    Whatever is coextensive with being counts as a transcende... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Disjunctions such as infinite-or-finite and necessary-or-contingent are transcendentals.

    Whatever is coextensive with being counts as a transcendental.

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    The study of being qua being includes, first of all, the study of the transcendentals, so called because they transcend the division of being into finite and infinite, and the further division of finite being into the ten Aristotelian categories. Being itself is a transcendental, and so are the “proper attributes” of being—one, true, and good—which are coextensive with being. Scotus also identifies an indefinite number of disjunctions that are coextensive with being and therefore count as transc

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