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    It is not the case that When 'own nature' (oikeia phusis) is used in Stoic and Megarian contexts, it refers to the constitutive properties of a thing as they manifest through time, not to atemporal essences abstracted from temporal reality.

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    • 1.Even temporal manifestations require underlying atemporal structural principles to remain consistently recognizable.
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    • 2.Stoic pneuma operates through eternal rational principles (logoi) that transcend particular temporal instances.
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    • 3.Distinguishing 'constitutive properties' from 'essences' may be terminological rather than philosophically substantive.
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    • 1.Stoic physics describes objects through continuous causal processes and transformations, not static definitions.
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    • 2.Oikeia phusis explains why things act as they do through time, requiring reference to temporal manifestation.
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    • 3.Megarian potentiality doctrine ties properties to actualization in specific conditions, inherently temporal.
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