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

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

Creature
That which is brought into existence by the action of creation. It is of the nature of creatures to be contingent and therefore non-necessary.
Essence
(also called Form, Nature, and Quiddity).— The permanent intrinsic constitution of a thing; that by which a thing exists considered in itself and apart from all contingent factors; what a thing is. T...
Eternity
The measure of the being of Pure Act, which is without succession or change. Eternity is the prime analogate of the analogical notion duration, which includes also time and aeviternity.
Evil
The absence of a due good, i.e., a privation of a good that should be present.
Ex Nihilo
Latin term that can be translated as “out of nothing” or “from nothing,” meaning from no presupposed subject.
Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit
Latin dictum that can be translated as “out of nothing, nothing comes” or “from nothing, nothing comes.”
Existence
(in Latin esse).— The act proper to a being that constitutes it as a being and in created realities, posits it outside of its causes.
Falsity
(also called Error).— 1. The opposite of truth. 2. The discrepancy between a judgment and reality. This is sometimes called “logical falsity.” Improperly one can perhaps speak of falsity of an ontolog...
Finitude
(also called Finiteness).— Limitedness.
First Principles
1. Self-evident principles that are intrinsic to being as such and that are true of all things insofar as they have being. E.g., the principle of non-contradiction, the principle of identity, the prin...

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