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

Agnosticism
Uncertainty or doubt about the existence of a divinity or divinities.
Analogy
A relationship between applications of a concept in a judgment such that the applications are in one respect like, and in another respect unlike, each other; thus, it is a relationship that is a kind...
Animal
1. A being possessing a sensitive soul or a soul with sensitive powers, both for cognition (internal and external senses) and appetition (concupiscible and irascible appetites). 2. The genus to which...
Appetitive
Pertaining to the power to desire and its primordial acts of love and hatred. More broadly, the term is used also to refer to all of the passions elicited by the concupiscible and irascible appetites...
Argument
The logical term for the product of the third operation of the intellect, i.e., reasoning. More precisely, it is a set of propositions in which the truth of some propositions (the premises) is suppose...
Art
1. The intellectual virtue by which one is able to make something well. 2. The work produced by an artist.
Aseity
The state in which something is from or of itself, as opposed to being from or of another thing and, hence, dependent on that thing. E.g., God does not depend on anything else and, therefore, aseity i...
Assent
A judgment by which the intellect affirms a given statement.
Atheism
Denial of the existence of a divinity or divinities.
Atomism
(also called Mechanism) The doctrine according to which all bodies are wholly constituted by material elements (atoms) the same in substance but differing in shape, with the attributes of compound bod...

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