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    It is not the case that Without a genuine genus delimiting its subject matter, what Aristotle calls 'first philosophy' collapses into either theology or a mere catalogue of categorial distinctions, not a unified science.

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    • 1.Being may not be a genus at all—Aristotle himself argues being is not univocal. Analogy, not univocity, could provide adequate philosophical unity.
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    • 2.Unified science doesn't require genus-delimitation. Mathematical and logical inquiry achieve unity through method and explanatory standards, not genus.
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    • 3.Metaphysics as 'catalogue of categorial distinctions' isn't collapse but success: systematic mapping of how being manifests across irreducible kinds.
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    • 1.Science requires a unified subject matter. Without delimiting what 'being' means, inquiry fragments into disconnected studies of particulars.
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    • 2.Aristotle explicitly seeks a single science of being qua being, not multiple sciences. A genuine genus provides the necessary conceptual unity.
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    • 3.Without genus-delimitation, substance and accident, form and matter lack systematic relation, reducing metaphysics to mere categorical listing.
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