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

Change
A modification in a thing; the actualization of some potency possessed by a thing.
Cogitative Sense
(also called Cogitative Power, Cogitative Faculty, and Particular Reason).— The estimative power in human beings. Like the estimative power in non-human animals, it is the power to judge whether what...
Cognitive
Pertaining to the power to know, whether sensibly or intellectually.
Common Sense
1. The internal sense by which one is aware that one is perceiving things, is able to distinguish the various senses, and unify the various objects of the external senses. 2. Knowledge of the first se...
Corruption / Generation
The instantaneous change, after a process of motion, involving the gaining or loss of a substantial form. Often, the final preliminary dispositions for substantial generation persist in the new being...
Cosmology
(also called General Philosophy of Nature).— 1. Modern scholastic usage. The division of the philosophy of nature that studies bodies or mobile beings in general. Some modern scholastics treated cosm...
Death
1. A living thing ceasing to exist as a living thing. 2. The permanent or prolonged ceasing of immanent activity in a body due to the soul’s no longer functioning as the body’s actualizing principle....
Effect
That which depends upon another being or principle for its existence. Although most especially used in reference to the effects of efficient causes, the cause-effect relationship can be found accordi...
Efficient Cause
A cause that brings something into existence either absolutely or through producing a change in something already in existence. To bring something into existence absolutely is an act that only God can...
Estimative Sense
(also called Estimative Power and Estimative Faculty).— The internal sense by which animals judge what they perceive by their external senses to be, for example, beneficial or harmful. This power, al...

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