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Moral and Political Philosophy Aesthetics Christology Ecclesiology Epistemology Human Person Logic Metaphysics Moral Theology Philosophy of Nature

Communicable
Capable of having something in common with another or of being transferred to another.
Concept
1. Formal Concept. The product that results from the first operation of the intellect, i.e., understanding. It is the expression of the intellect’s apprehension of the essence of the thing it knows. S...
Conceptualism
The doctrine according to which universals (and, therefore, essences or natures) only exist in the mind and have no existence in reality outside the mind.
Conclusion
The proposition in an argument whose truth is supposed to be entailed by the truth of the premises. (For an example, see ARGUMENT)
Conscience
The intellectual act or capacity to make a judgment about the morality of an act.
Consequentialism
A system of moral analysis according to which the consequences of actions determine whether the actions are good or bad. Consequentialism and utilitarianism share the same basic principles of analysi...
Contradiction
The logical relationship between a universal affirmative proposition and a particular negative proposition with the same terms, or between a universal negative proposition and a particular affirmative...
Contrariety
1. The logical relationship between a universal affirmative proposition and a universal negative proposition with the same terms. Contrary propositions cannot both at the same time be true but can bot...
Copula
A form of the verb “to be” (“is,” “are,” etc.) that unites the subject and predicate of a proposition. In the following affirmative proposition, “is” is the copula uniting “cat” and “mat”: “The cat is...
Corruption / Generation
The instantaneous change, after a process of motion, involving the gaining or loss of a substantial form. Often, the final preliminary dispositions for substantial generation persist in the new being...

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Communicable

Concept

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Contradiction

Contrariety

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Corruption / Generation

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