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

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

Idealism
In general, the doctrine according to which our knowledge is confined to the content of our own minds.
Ignorance
Lack of knowledge.
Imagination
(also called Fantasy and Phantasy).— The internal sense by which one retains, perceives, combines, and modifies images (phantasms) of what is perceived by the external senses. Not to be confused with...
Immortality
The ability to live forever; the incorruptibility of a living thing.
Immutability
Not being subject to change.
In Se
Latin term that can be translated as “in itself.”
Incommunicable
Incapable of having something in common with another or of being transferred to another.
Individuality
The way of being found in bodily beings, such that the nature of that being is contracted by the dimensive conditions of materiality found in that being.
Inference
In essence, simply the act of argument or reasoning.
Infinity
Negatively: limitlessness, being without limits. Positively: wholly actual (having no potency).

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