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Full Idea
Among creatures there are only three 'res' belong to the three first categories: Substance, Quantity and Quality. All other are aspects [rationes] and intellectual concepts with respect to them, with reality only as grounded on the res of those three.
Clarification
'res' is Latin for a 'thing'
Gist of Idea
Substance, Quantity and Quality are real; other categories depend on those three
Source
Henry of Ghent (Quodlibeta [1284], VII:1-2), quoted by Robert Pasnau - Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 12.3
Book Ref
Pasnau,Robert: 'Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671' [OUP 2011], p.232
A Reaction
Pasnau connects with the 'arrangement of being', giving an 'ontologically innocent' structure to reality. That seems to be what we all want, if only we could work out the ontologically guilty bit.
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| 16658 | The only reality in the category of Relation is things from another category [Henry of Ghent] |
| 16657 | Substance, Quantity and Quality are real; other categories depend on those three [Henry of Ghent] |
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