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Philosophy of Nature
(also called Natural Philosophy and, in ancient and scholastic usage, Physics).— The philosophical study of being under the aspect of mobility. Classically, the philosophy of nature treated of mobile...
Potency
(also called Power).— A capacity for act, whether entitative or operative.
Privation
1. The absence of a form that could be present in a thing. E.g., the absence of motion in a ball. 2. The absence of what should be present; the absence of a due good; moral or natural evil. E.g., the...
Property
1. See Necessary Accident. 2. Any attribute of a thing. 3. In logic, a predicable designating that something belongs only, necessarily, and always to a given species and its members. For example, to b...
Psychology
1. Modern scholastic usage. The division of the philosophy of nature (also called Special Philosophy of Nature) that studies living things, i.e., animated beings, which have souls. It is less often us...
Quiddity
Literally, “whatness”; a synonym for essence, focusing on the essence’s role in founding the definition of things, that is, their “what- (quid-)ness.”
Rational Animal
The definition of a human being according to his or her genus (animal) and specific difference (rational); a being possessing a rational or intellectual soul.
Relation
1. One of the ten categories of Aristotle, designating that mode of being which is wholly to be directed toward another (ad aliquid). For those scholastics who hold to the existence of real relations,...
Scientism
The doctrine according to which all that exists is what can be investigated by the modern natural sciences. It denies the existence of whatever is not subject to investigation according to the methods...
Sense
A cognitive power that depends on a bodily organ.

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