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Material
1. Pertaining to the material or particular. 2. In bodily materiality, the condition of being marked by potency in relation to form. In various theories of individuation, such materiality plays a fun...
Material Cause
(also called Matter).— In a bodily being, the potency principle from which the being in question comes to be.
Material Logic
(also called Major Logic).— The division of logic that studies the relationship between valid argumentation and the acquisition of knowledge. It can also include the study of the methods of the variou...
Materialism
(also called Physicalism).— The doctrine according to which all that exists is matter or bodies. It denies the existence of anything spiritual. With regard to human beings, it denies that there is any...
Mechanism
In modern scholastic usage, a synonym for “atomism.” See Atomism.
Mental
1. Pertaining to the mind. 2. Sometimes improperly used to refer to beings of reason (entia rationis) or relations of reason (relationes rationis).
Metaphysics
1. The philosophical study of being as being, i.e., being as such or considered in itself, and its causes. 2. The philosophical study of first principles (sometimes called, in later scholasticism, “cr...
Mind
Often used as a synonym for intellect, although sometimes the term is used to designate a combination of both intellect and will. The Latin word mens is sometimes correlative to the Greek term nous,...
Modal Logic
A kind of formal logic that studies arguments that contain modal propositions, i.e., propositions affected by modalities such as “necessarily” and “possibly.” Various forms of modal logic can be foun...
Monastics
In scholastic usage, the term for general ethics. The term is seldom used in this sense today.

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