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

Transcendent
1. Being beyond some particular thing or beyond some domain of reality. 2. Being beyond all finite beings.
Transcendental
1. A property that belongs to a being (in Latin, ens) as such and, therefore, transcends all the classes into which being can be divided. The list of properties standardly proposed as transcendentals...
Truth
1. Logical Truth (also called Formal Truth). The conformity of a judgment to reality, either immediately (in the case of first principles or immediate experience) or mediately (through objectively in...
Ultimate / Proximate
Terms for a relationship between causes (or principles, norms, classes, etc.) and that which they determine such that the causes qualified as “proximate” are intermediate between the things determined...

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