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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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| Substance is that which is equipped to exist in itself and not in another as inhering in a subject. |
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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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| What are the principles of change? |
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| Matter, Form and Privation |
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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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| Those things are called causes upon which things depend or their existence on becoming. |
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| Motion is the act of what exists in potency, insofar as it is in potency. |
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| Act mean that motion is a kind of fulfillment or realization |
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| What is of what exists in potency? |
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| mean that motion is ordered to further act, that is that the act is not yet complete. |
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| What is insofar as it is in potency? |
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| mean that motion actuates the subject only in that respect by which it is in potency to the motion. |
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| St. Thomas definition of motion |
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| Motion is a mean between pure potency and complete act. Motion is a mixed act not pure potency or pure act. |
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| Why is motion to be distinguished from pure potency and pure act? |
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| What is in pure potency is not yet moved and what is in perfect act is no longer moved. Motion is something intermediate between the two. |
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| Aristotle's definition of the infinite with respect to quantity? |
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| A quantity is infinite if it such that we can always take a part outside what has already been taken. |
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| Why is an actually infinite body or magnitude impossible? |
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| Because what is actual is complete and whole whereas what is infinite is by definition incomplete. |
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| In what sense does the infinite exist? |
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| The infinite exists only in potency because number can be continually added to and bodies can be divided without end. |
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| What is Aristotle's definition of time? |
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| Time is the number of motion with respect to before and after. |
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| What is the definition of eternity? |
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| Eternity is the perfect and totally simultaneous possession of interminable life. |
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| What is the difference between time and eternity? |
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| Time presupposes motion or change and eternity presupposes absolute unchangeableness. No being whose life involves change can possess all of it at once, i.e. simultaneously, but only successively. |
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