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| The categories are the supreme genera of being that correspond to the various kinds of predicates in a judgment. |
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| What are the ten categories? |
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| Substance, Quantity, Quality, Relation, Action, Passion, Time, Place, Position, Possession (Habit) |
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| What is the first main division of the categories? |
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| What is the second main division? |
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| Division into those predicates which signify what exists in a subject and those that signify something in virtue of extrinsic denomination. |
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| Which categories signify what exists in a subject? |
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| Quantity, Quality, Relation |
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| Which categories signify something after the manner of extrinsic denomination? |
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| Action, Passion, Time, Place, Position, Possession (Habit) |
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| What is the difference between first (primary) substance and second substance? |
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Primary substance is that which is neither present in a subject nor predicated of a subject.
Second Substance is that which is predicated of a subject but which is not an accident. |
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| Substance is that which is equipped to exist in itself and not in another as inhering in a subject. |
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1. not being in a subject
2. to be predicated univocally
3. to signify that which is individual
4. to have no contrary
5. not admitting of more or less
6. to be susceptive of contraries |
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| Three disciplines corresponding to the three degrees of abstraction |
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| Physics, Mathematics, Metaphysics |
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| How do the three degrees of abstraction differ from one another? |
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The first degree abstracts from individual matter (but not common, sensible matter)
The second degree abstracts from sensible matter (but not intelligible matter)
The third degree abstracts from all matter (both sensible and intelligible) |
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| 2 reasons Parmenides gives for why being cannot change |
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1. What is cannot come from nothing
2. What is cannot come from what is |
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| Why is it that being cannot come from nothing? |
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| Because nothing can come from nothing. |
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| Why is it that being cannot come from being? |
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| because something cannot come from what already is |
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| According to Aristotle, being comes neither from what is nor from what is not. From what therefore does it come? |
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| Potential being is a mean between actual being and non-being |
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| How many principles of change are there? |
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| What are the principles of change? |
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| Matter, Form and Privation |
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| Why does every change require a subject? |
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| because otherwise something would have to come from nothing. |
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| What is the subject of change? |
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| What are the per se principles of change? |
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| Is privation a per se or a per accidens principle of motion? |
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| Privation is per accidens principles of change because it is not a real constitutive principle of a thing's being but is rather a being of reason. |
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| What are the two basic kinds of change? |
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| Accidental and Substantial Change |
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| What is the subject of substantial change? |
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| What is the subject of accidental change? |
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| The composite substance, also known as the subject or second matter. |
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| What are the two principles of substantial composites? |
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| Prime matter and substantial form |
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| the first subject from which something comes to be per se and not per accidens and which remains in the thing. |
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| Substantial Form definition |
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| is that by which something is determined to a certain mode of being. |
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| Nature is principle and cause of motion and rest in the thing in which it inheres immediately and as an attribute that is essential and not accidental. |
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| That is artificial whose principle is outside, namely, in reason disposing external matter. |
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| A violent action is one whose principle is outside, without active contribution from the affected subject. |
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| Those things are called causes upon which things depend or their existence or becoming. |
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Material
Formal
Efficient
Final |
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| Definition of material cause |
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| Material Cause - is that out of which a thing comes to be and which remains in it. |
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| Definition of Formal cause |
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| Is that by which something is determined to a certain mode of being. |
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| Definition of Efficient Cause |
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| is the primary source of motion. |
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| is that for the sake of which something comes to be. |
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| Why is the final cause called the cause of all causes? |
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| because it is the cause of the causality of all causes. |
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| In what sense is the efficient cause prior to the final cause? |
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| The efficient cause is prior to the final cause in time but not in nature, for it is only by the final cause that the efficient cause acts. |
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