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A Se
Latin term that can be translated as “from itself” or “of itself.”
Abstraction
1. The act whereby the intellect (as agent intellect) separates the intelligible species or content, i.e., the essence of the thing known, from the phantasm. 2. The intellectual isolation of a given o...
Accident
An attribute of a substance that does not belong directly to its nature.
Act
Perfection, completion, fulfillment, or realization. Although in many cases it is the terminus of a movement or actualization of a potency of some kind, it need not be. When it is not, perhaps it is b...
Action
The act of an agent or efficient cause.
Ad Hominem
1. In contemporary logic an argument that negatively refocuses concern on the character of one’s interlocutor, distracting from the subject matter under discussion. Such an argument is regularly cons...
Adaequatio Intellectus Ad Rem
Latin term that can be translated as “the adequation of the intellect to reality” or “the conformity of the intellect to reality.” It denotes logical truth. Such “adequation” can take place either i...
Aesthetics
The philosophical study of the nature of beauty and those things related to beauty. This division of philosophy is relatively recent in the history of philosophy and does not represent a classical di...
Aeviternity
The measure of beings that are mutable but not subject to material conditions, i.e., the angels as well as separated and resurrected souls, as regards their created acts “outside” of the vision of God...
Agent
The subject which performs an action; an efficient cause. E.g., a person who opens a door.

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