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30 Cards in this Set
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Accident |
an attribute that inheres in another |
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Actuality |
the perfection of a being |
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Analogical |
related meaning
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Appetite |
the desire or striving of finite beings to actualize potentialities |
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Essence |
that which makes something what it is substantially |
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Composite |
made up of parts
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Equivocal |
totally different meaning |
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Eternal |
being out of time; without beginning or end
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Finite |
having limits or bounds
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Form |
the determining principle of a physical thing
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Immutable |
that which is unchangeable over time
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Infinite |
unlimited; limitless |
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Inhere |
that which exists essentially
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Intellect |
the power to understand |
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Nature |
the essence of a thing considered as the source of its activities |
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Mutable |
that which is in motion and is changeable
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Person |
subsistent thing in an intellectual nature |
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Potentiality |
the capacity to be or to become something |
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Power |
the active capacity to perform a certain kind of activity |
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Principle |
the universal premise of an argument |
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Rational Soul |
the substantial form of human beings and the ultimate source of their powers and activities |
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Reason |
the power to draw conclusions from principles
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Science (Aristotelian) |
Knowledge about things through knowledge of their causes |
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Senses |
powers of perception through bodily organs |
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Simple |
all things are the same as their essence. No accidents. being without parts
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Soul |
the substantial form of a living material thing |
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Substance |
what subsists in itself and not in another |
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Temporal |
in/of time
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Univocal |
one/same meaning |
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Will |
the intellectual (rational) human appetite; the intellectual faculty of desire |
