وإلا فاشتراك الشيئين في جميع الأوصاف، ومساواتهما من جميع الوجوه يرفع التعدد، فكيف يتصور التماثل
Otherwise, sharing every attribute and being equal in every respect would remove plurality itself; how then could likeness be conceived?
If two putative things were wholly indistinguishable under every determination, the basis for counting them as two would be called into question. Ordinary likeness presupposes distinguishable terms of comparison.
Therefore the fact that a word may apply in some way to both creatures and God does not yield identity of reality or make any creature an alternative to God.