The Metaphysics of the School: Book4. Principles of being; Book 5. Causes of beingMacmillan and Company, 1881 |
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... actions , one of which we may conceive as terminated to the concre- ation of matter , the other to a concreative eduction of the Form Proposition CLXXXV . The action by which the Form is educed from the potentiality of matter and that ...
... actions , one of which we may conceive as terminated to the concre- ation of matter , the other to a concreative eduction of the Form Proposition CLXXXV . The action by which the Form is educed from the potentiality of matter and that ...
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... action , because it begins and ends with the thinker . Therefore , the thought is formal cause to the mental faculty ; rather than the mental faculty efficient cause of the thought . But the question at present occupying us concerns ...
... action , because it begins and ends with the thinker . Therefore , the thought is formal cause to the mental faculty ; rather than the mental faculty efficient cause of the thought . But the question at present occupying us concerns ...
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... action of the First Cause ; -to say nothing of the necessity of His Action , in order that second causes may exist . He is absolutely sufficient ; because He contains eminently in Himself all the virtue and energy that is to be found in ...
... action of the First Cause ; -to say nothing of the necessity of His Action , in order that second causes may exist . He is absolutely sufficient ; because He contains eminently in Himself all the virtue and energy that is to be found in ...
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... to reading from the book of nature . We simply look on , while the physical phenomena pass before us ; and register the facts . But by experiment we force nature to the proof by our own proper action upon Experimental Principles . 63.
... to reading from the book of nature . We simply look on , while the physical phenomena pass before us ; and register the facts . But by experiment we force nature to the proof by our own proper action upon Experimental Principles . 63.
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... action according to a physical law and action under a natural impulsion ; and what is the precise difference between the two orders of energy . An entity , then , is said to act according to a physical law , when its action , though ...
... action according to a physical law and action under a natural impulsion ; and what is the precise difference between the two orders of energy . An entity , then , is said to act according to a physical law , when its action , though ...
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absolutely accident accidental form according action actu actual affirmative agent analytical Judgments Angelic Doctor animal answer Antecedent argument Aristotle atomic theory atoms autem bodies bodily substance Category causality cognition complete substance composite concept condition consequently constitution contingent declared demonstration dependence distinct doctrine effect efficient cause elements enim entity essence essential evidence existence fact faculty formal formal cause former Hence hic et nunc human soul idea ideo impossible instance intellectual intrinsic Kant logical Material Cause material substance metaphysical motion necessary necessity object order of reduction passive potentiality phenomena philosophy physical law possible predicate present Primordial Matter Principle of contradiction Principle of identity prior priority produced PROLEGOMENON Proposition purely quae quantity quod reality reason relation secundum sense sensile perception sicut Sir William Hamilton specific nature substantial form supposed syllogism synthetical term theory Thesis thing Thomas tion truth ultimate universal virtue Wherefore words
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Página 42 - Again ; the mathematical postulate, that " things which are equal to the same are equal to one another," is similar to the form of the syllogism in logic, which unites things agreeing in the middle term.
Página 61 - that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle, with a force whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of their distances from each other.
Página 98 - The comparison of the theatre must not mislead us. They are the successive perceptions only, that constitute the mind; nor have we the most distant notion of the place where these scenes are represented, or of the materials of which it is composed.
Página 94 - As to those impressions which arise from the senses, their ultimate cause is, in my opinion, perfectly inexplicable by human reason, and 'twill always be impossible to decide with certainty whether they arise immediately from the object, or are produced by the creative power of the mind, or are derived from the Author of our being.
Página 95 - Were ideas entirely loose and unconnected, chance alone would join them : and 'tis impossible the same simple ideas should fall regularly into complex ones (as they commonly do) without some bond of union among them, some associating quality, by which one idea naturally introduces another.
Página 740 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens...
Página 99 - If any impression gives rise to the idea of self, that impression must continue invariably the same, thro' the whole course of our lives; since self is supposed to exist after that manner. But there is no impression constant and invariable.
Página 96 - These are therefore the principles of union or cohesion among our simple ideas, and in the imagination supply the place of that inseparable connection by which they are united in our memory. Here is a kind of ATTRACTION, which in the mental world will be found to have as extraordinary effects as in the natural, and to show itself in as many and as various forms.
Página 101 - When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make? If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
Página 96 - This variety of terms, which may seem so unphilosophical, is intended only to express that act of the mind, which renders realities, or what is taken for such, more present to us than fictions, causes them to weigh more in the thought, and gives them a superior influence on the passions and imagination.