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

Sanction
The means, consisting in rewards or punishments, by which one is induced to follow a law. E.g., a punishment for breaking a human law might be a fine or imprisonment.
Science
See KNOWLEDGE.
Scientism
The doctrine according to which all that exists is what can be investigated by the modern natural sciences. It denies the existence of whatever is not subject to investigation according to the methods...
Secundum Quid
Latin term that can be translated as “in a qualified sense,” “in a way,” or “in some respect.” It is used to express some qualification in what is being claimed. E.g., “The natural moral law is known...
Sense
A cognitive power that depends on a bodily organ.
Sense / Reference
A distinction, introduced by Gottlob Frege, between the descriptive or intelligible content of a term, i.e., its sense (Sinn), and the things in reality that it is supposed to indicate, i.e., its refe...
Sense Appetite
(also called Sensitive Appetite).— The appetitive power in animals (including rational animals) that is moved or actualized by the perception of the external senses and internal senses. Passions are t...
Sense Memory
(also called Sensitive Memory).— The internal sense by which one retains the perceptions of the external senses, and most importantly the images (or “phantasms”) formed by the estimative or cogitative...
Sign
That which brings something else into the ambit of a knowing power. According to a number of scholastics, a sign is a relation (relatio secundum esse), not the visible vehicle by which a sign is noti...
Simpliciter
Latin term that can be translated as “simply,” “absolutely,” or “unqualifiedly.”

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