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Essence, Existence, and the Real Distinction

Whether what a thing is and that it is are two principles in the thing or one, and what follows for anything whose existence is not owed to something else

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This rung already has its place in the Metaphysics ladder and a fixed job in the order. The prose is what is missing. Writing it out of sequence would break the guarantee that nothing here uses a term before an earlier article defines it.

Will defineessence-existence distinctionreal distinctionessesubsistent existenceconceptual distinction
Assumesessenceact and potencysubstanceessential propertyontological dependence

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