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

Suppositio
In later medieval logic, a term referring to the substitutionary value that a subject of a proposition takes in relation to its predicate. The suppositio of a term determines what the term itself ref...
Syllogism
An argument containing two premises and a conclusion.
Symbolic Logic
Broadly speaking, a formal logic that employs technical symbols in the place of natural language. Here is a conditional syllogism in natural language with its symbolic counterpart in modern propositi...
Synderesis
The intellectual capacity for knowledge of the first principles of the natural moral law. The root capacity for the knowledge that informs moral-practical cognition and conscience.

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