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

Abstraction
1. The act whereby the intellect (as agent intellect) separates the intelligible species or content, i.e., the essence of the thing known, from the phantasm. 2. The intellectual isolation of a given o...
Adaequatio Intellectus Ad Rem
Latin term that can be translated as “the adequation of the intellect to reality” or “the conformity of the intellect to reality.” It denotes logical truth. Such “adequation” can take place either i...
Assent
A judgment by which the intellect affirms a given statement.
Certitude
(also called Certainty).— 1. Subjective Certitude. A firm assent of the intellect.
Concept
1. Formal Concept. The product that results from the first operation of the intellect, i.e., understanding. It is the expression of the intellect’s apprehension of the essence of the thing it knows. S...
Conceptualism
The doctrine according to which universals (and, therefore, essences or natures) only exist in the mind and have no existence in reality outside the mind.
Empiricism
In its most radical version, the doctrine according to which all of our knowledge is confined to what we have contact with through sense experience (sense knowledge arising from the perceptions of the...
Epistemic Relativism
The doctrine according to which truth is determined exclusively by individuals, cultures, or other groups. Therefore, no judgment is simply true. All judgments are true “from a perspective.”
Epistemology
(also called Criteriology or Criticism).— The philosophical study of knowledge. Some modern scholastics categorized epistemology as a division of metaphysics (sometimes referring to it as part of “def...
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