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Economics
1. Classical and Scholastic usage. The term that names the division of moral philosophy that studies the nature, principles, and structures of the family. The term is seldom used in this sense today....
Effect
That which depends upon another being or principle for its existence. Although most especially used in reference to the effects of efficient causes, the cause-effect relationship can be found accordi...
Efficient Cause
A cause that brings something into existence either absolutely or through producing a change in something already in existence. To bring something into existence absolutely is an act that only God can...
Empiricism
In its most radical version, the doctrine according to which all of our knowledge is confined to what we have contact with through sense experience (sense knowledge arising from the perceptions of the...
Epistemic Relativism
The doctrine according to which truth is determined exclusively by individuals, cultures, or other groups. Therefore, no judgment is simply true. All judgments are true “from a perspective.”
Epistemology
(also called Criteriology or Criticism).— The philosophical study of knowledge. Some modern scholastics categorized epistemology as a division of metaphysics (sometimes referring to it as part of “def...
Error
See FALSITY.
Essence
(also called Form, Nature, and Quiddity).— The permanent intrinsic constitution of a thing; that by which a thing exists considered in itself and apart from all contingent factors; what a thing is. T...
Estimative Sense
(also called Estimative Power and Estimative Faculty).— The internal sense by which animals judge what they perceive by their external senses to be, for example, beneficial or harmful. This power, al...
Eternity
The measure of the being of Pure Act, which is without succession or change. Eternity is the prime analogate of the analogical notion duration, which includes also time and aeviternity.

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