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| what a thing is; a thing's nature or type, in principle specifiable by way of a set of necessary, defining features--by contrast with the thing's very existence. |
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| the actual being of a thing; the act whereby a thing exists |
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| as referring to a use of language, one according to which the intention is to express features of reality by means of genuine concepts |
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| use of terms according to which the same word has two or more distinct and unrelated meanings |
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| use of language according to which a common term has meanings that are related to one another, rather than being completely the same or completely different--often divided into analogy of "attribution" and analogy of "proportionality"; features of reality that form the basis of analogous of language |
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| use of language according to which, in each instance of the term's literal employment, it has the same meaning |
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| real features of being that can be present only in a thing that is material |
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| Transcendental Perfection |
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| property of real being that is present across all the categories and levels of being |
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| (I) that which is; (2) the transcendental perfection by which each thing is; (3) the act of existing; (4) in the phrase "being as being," the formal subject matter of metaphysics |
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| transcendental property of being according to which each thing, insofar as it is, is a type of whole |
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| (1) transcendental property according to which each real being, in some appropriate respect, is desirable; (2) the general object of affectivity |
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| transcendental property of being according to which, when a thing is perceived or understood, it awakens delight |
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| feature of real being that can be present only in beings that are not in themselves material |
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| (1) in metaphysics, the real feature of things according to which certain qualities are shared in respective manners and degrees; (2) in philosophy of the human person, that relation according to which, as social beings, our fulfillment involves appropriate engagement with others in community |
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| belief in God as traditionally understood in Western religions, especially insofar as this belief is articulated philosophically |
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| position holding that God does not exist |
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| position holding that we cannot know or properly believe anything about God--including whether God exists |
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| instance of explicit reasoning, whether deductive or inductive |
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| property of certain deductive arguments according to which, if the premises are true, the conclusion must also be true |
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| feature of deductive arguments, such that, in those that have it, the premises are true and the conclusion genuinely follows from th premises; the conclusion of a sound deductive argument is true by logical necessity |
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| a sound deductive argument that is known to be sound. |
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| use of language according to which meaning is carried from one type of context to another without implying corresponding relations in reality |
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| the various meanings are related as attributed are to a substance e.g. healthy |
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| analogy of proportionality |
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| similarity or proportion among the meanings of the term e.g. good student/good athlete |
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| every being it what it is |
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| principle of sufficient reason |
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| everything that is, to the extent that it is, has a sufficient reason for its being |
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| potency essentially refers to (or is related to) act |
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| approach to developing statements about God in terms of what God is not |
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| Latin phrase for "learned ignorance"; as used in speculative philosophy, especially regarding the essence of God, knowing that one does not know, and knowing why one does not know |
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| mode of existence beyond the limits of the natural world |
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| mode of existence involving immediate presence, especially said of God's presence to all of creation |
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| mode of duration and existence whereby a being (God) has complete possession of its reality in an "all at once" manner, without undergoing successive states |
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| according to certain modern understandings, property of a reality (in particular God) whereby it is without beginning or end, but nonetheless undergoes successive temporal states |
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| as understood in perennial discussion of God, that awareness by which all things are present to God, and by which all of reality is ordered to , and ultimately is brought to, a final good. |
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| philosophical and/or theological effort to render consistent one's theistic beliefs with a recognition of the evil in the world |
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| total personal response to what is accepted as a call from God; sometimes the term connotes in particular an intellectual adherence to truths taken to be revealed |
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