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

Faith (Theological Virtue)
The theological virtue by which the human intellect, moved by the graced will, is rendered capable of assenting to truths (both supernatural and natural) divinely revealed by God. Insofar as “faith i...
Fallacy
An error in argument.
Falsity
(also called Error).— 1. The opposite of truth. 2. The discrepancy between a judgment and reality. This is sometimes called “logical falsity.” Improperly one can perhaps speak of falsity of an ontolog...
Family
(also called Domestic Society or Household).— The natural society constituted by a father, mother, and children. In the order of nature, the family exists as an imperfect society that must be incorpo...
Final Cause
(also called End, Finality, and Teleology).— An end, goal, or purpose. The final cause is that for the sake of which something either exists or is done. The final cause is the determinate thing to whi...
Fine Art
1. The intellectual virtue by which one is able to make something beautiful. 2. The beautiful work produced by an artist.
Finis Operantis
Latin term that can be translated as “the end of the doer.” It is the intention or purpose that one has in performing some action.
Finis Operis
Latin term that can be translated as “the end of the deed.” It is that which an action is naturally inclined to bring about regardless of what the agent performing the action intends.
Finitude
(also called Finiteness).— Limitedness.
First Principles
1. Self-evident principles that are intrinsic to being as such and that are true of all things insofar as they have being. E.g., the principle of non-contradiction, the principle of identity, the prin...

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