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Single Idea 11206
[filed under theme 19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 3. Predicates
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Full Idea
Attribution is something mind brings to completion by constructing propositional connections and disconnections, basing itself on real-world unity possessed by the things being attributed to one another.
Gist of Idea
The mind constructs complete attributions, based on the unified elements of the real world
Source
Thomas Aquinas (De Ente et Essentia (Being and Essence) [1267], p.102)
Book Ref
Aquinas,Thomas: 'Selected Philosophical Writings', ed/tr. McDermott,Timothy [OUP 1993], p.102
A Reaction
This compromise story seems to me to be exactly right. I take it that we respond to the real joints of nature, but using thought and language which is riddled with convention.
The
14 ideas
from 'De Ente et Essentia (Being and Essence)'
13090
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The principle of diversity for corporeal substances is their matter
[Aquinas, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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13070
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If definitions must be general, and general terms can't individuate, then Socrates can't be defined
[Aquinas, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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11205
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If the form of 'human' contains 'many', Socrates isn't human; if it contains 'one', Socrates is Plato
[Aquinas]
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11206
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The mind constructs complete attributions, based on the unified elements of the real world
[Aquinas]
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11207
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A cause can exist without its effect, but the effect cannot exist without its cause
[Aquinas]
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11208
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A simple substance is its own essence
[Aquinas]
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11196
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Essence is something in common between the natures which sort things into categories
[Aquinas]
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11197
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The definitions expressing identity are used to sort things
[Aquinas]
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11195
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If affirmative propositions express being, we affirm about what is absent
[Aquinas]
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11198
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Definition of essence makes things understandable
[Aquinas]
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11201
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Properties have an incomplete essence, with definitions referring to their subject
[Aquinas]
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11200
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The definition of a physical object must include the material as well as the form
[Aquinas]
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11202
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It is by having essence that things exist
[Aquinas]
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11203
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Specific individual essence is defined by material, and generic essence is defined by form
[Aquinas]
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