The Metaphysics of the School: Book 1. The definition; Book 2. Being.; Book 3. Attributes of beingMacmillan and Company, 1879 |
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absolutely abstraction Accident accidental according actual Essence albedo aliquid analogically Angelic Doctor animal argument Aristotle Attributes autem Avicenna bonum called cognition common composition conceived Conceptual Truth conformity consequently considered constituted definite determined dicitur difficulty Divine Idea Divine Simplicity division doctrine efficient cause enim entity essential Evil existence extrinsic faculty Falsity finite follows formal concept former Genus habet Hæcceity Hence hic et nunc human identical ideo included indivision Infinite instance intellect Intelligence intrinsic Judgment logical material Substance Matter Metaphysics mind mode modum natural Evil negation nihil objective concept Ontological Truth perfection philosophical physical Plato positive possible Essence potentiality potest predicated present presupposes principle Proposition purely quae Quantity question quia Quiddity rationem real distinction reality reason relation represented sense sensile perception sicut simple Apprehension soul specific Nature Subject supposed syllogism term thing Thomas Thomas says tion Transcendental Unity true Wherefore words
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Página vii - And that is, when men speak such words, as put together, have in them no signification at all ; but are fallen upon by some, through mis-* understanding of the words they have received, and repeat by rote ; by others from intention to deceive by obscurity. And this is incident to none but those, that converse in questions of matters incomprehensible, as the School-men ; or in questions of abstruse philosophy. The common sort of men seldom speak insignificantly, and are, therefore, by those other...
Página 172 - Unde oportet quod omnes aliae conceptiones intellectus accipiantur ex additione ad ens. "Sed enti non potest addi aliquid quasi extranea natura per modum quo differentia additur generi, vel accidens subjecto, quia quaelibet natura essentialiter est ens; unde etiam probat Philosophus in III Metaphys.
Página vii - Suarez' first book, Of the concourse, motion, and help of God. When men write whole volumes of such stuff, are they not mad, or intend to make others so? And particularly, in the question of transubstantiation; where after certain words spoken; they that say, the whiteness, roundness, magnitude, quality, corruptibili/y, all which are incorporeal, &c.
Página 173 - Alio modo ita quod modus expressus sit modus generaliter consequens omne ens; et hic modus dupliciter accipi potest: uno modo secundum quod consequitur omne ens in se; alio modo, secundum quod consequitur unumquodque ens in ordine ad aliud.
Página 380 - Veritas quidem igitur potest esse in sensu, vel in intellectu cognoscente quod quid est, ut in quadam re vera; non autem ut cognitum in cognoscente, quod importat nomen veri; perfectio enim intellectus est verum ut cognitum. Et ideo proprie loquendo veritas est in intellectu componente et dividente; non autem in sensu neque in intellectu cognoscente quod quid est.
Página vii - There is yet another fault in the discourses of some men, which may also be numbered amongst the sorts of madness, namely that abuse of words, whereof I have spoken before in the fifth chapter, by the name of absurdity. And that is when men speak such words as, put together, have in them no signification at all, but are fallen upon by some, through misunderstanding of the words they have received and repeat by rote, by others from intention to deceive by obscurity.
Página lxi - ... we shall never go far astray. Man has been left to the resources of his intellect for the discovery not merely of physical laws, but of how far he is capable of comprehending them. And our answer to those who denounce our legitimate studies as heretical is simply this, — A revelation of any thing which we can discover for ourselves, by studying the ordinary course of nature, would be an absurdity.
Página 580 - ... its properties. In order to illustrate my meaning, without taking an example which would seem to show a desire to expose other people's errors, I will choose the case of something abstract, the definition of which is of little moment. Such is a circle. If a circle be defined as a figure, such that all straight lines drawn from the centre to the circumference are equal...
Página xvi - Like other campaigns it long languished for want of a good base of operations. But since physical science, in the course of the last fifty years, has brought to the front an inexhaustible supply of heavy artillery of a new pattern, warranted to drive solid bolts of fact through the thickest skulls, things are looking better...
Página 380 - Sed quando judicat rem ita se habere sicut est forma quam de re apprehendit, tune primo cognoscit et dicit verum.