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Phantasm
An image produced by the imagination of what we perceive by our external senses or of what is derived from their perceptions.
Philosophy
“The love of wisdom.” However, this very general definition has been understood in various ways. For Socrates and, to an extent, Plato, philosophy is either a preparation for a proper and detached d...
Philosophy of Nature
(also called Natural Philosophy and, in ancient and scholastic usage, Physics).— The philosophical study of being under the aspect of mobility. Classically, the philosophy of nature treated of mobile...
Political Philosophy
(in scholastic usage, also called Political Science or Politics).— The division of moral philosophy that studies the nature, principles, and structures of the political community, as well as the dynam...
Potency
(also called Power).— A capacity for act, whether entitative or operative.
Practical
Terminating in an operation or action of human making or doing.
Predicable
The logical relationship that a predicate bears to its subject in a proposition. There are five predicables: genus, difference, species, property, and accident. In the following proposition, the predi...
Premise
A proposition in an argument whose truth, when taken together with the truth of at least one other proposition, is supposed to entail the truth of the conclusion.
Principle
1. That from which something in some way proceeds. 2. More restrictively, that which in some way determines or constitutes a thing. 3. Improperly, principle is sometimes equated with cause.
Principle of (Efficient) Causality
The principle according to which whatever comes into existence must have an efficient cause.

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