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Single Idea 17007
[filed under theme 9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / a. Hylomorphism
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Full Idea
A form is required that, as it were, rules over all those faculties and accidents, and is the source of all actions and natural motions of such a being, and in which the whole variety of accidents and powers has its root and unity.
Gist of Idea
Forms must rule over faculties and accidents, and are the source of action and unity
Source
Francisco Suárez (Disputationes metaphysicae [1597], 15.1.7), quoted by Robert Pasnau - Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 24.4
Book Ref
Pasnau,Robert: 'Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671' [OUP 2011], p.562
A Reaction
Pasnau emphasises that this is scholastics giving a very physical and causal emphasis to forms, which made them vulnerable to doubts among the new experiment physicists. Pasnau says forms are 'metaphysical', following Leibniz.
The
16 ideas
from 'Disputationes metaphysicae'
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16667
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Substances are incomplete unless they have modes
[Suárez, by Pasnau]
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17007
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Forms must rule over faculties and accidents, and are the source of action and unity
[Suárez]
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16780
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Partial forms of leaf and fruit are united in the whole form of the tree
[Suárez]
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16758
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The best support for substantial forms is the co-ordinated unity of a natural being
[Suárez]
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16682
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Other things could occupy the same location as an angel
[Suárez]
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16743
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We can get at the essential nature of 'quantity' by knowing bulk and extension
[Suárez]
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16742
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We only know essences through non-essential features, esp. those closest to the essence
[Suárez]
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16665
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There are entities, and then positive 'modes', modifying aspects outside the thing's essence
[Suárez]
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16666
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A mode determines the state and character of a quantity, without adding to it
[Suárez]
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22143
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Identity does not exclude possible or imagined difference
[Suárez, by Boulter]
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22146
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Minor Real distinction: B needs A, but A doesn't need B
[Suárez, by Boulter]
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22145
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Major Real distinction: A and B have independent existences
[Suárez, by Boulter]
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22144
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Real Essential distinction: A and B are of different natural kinds
[Suárez, by Boulter]
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22147
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Conceptual/Mental distinction: one thing can be conceived of in two different ways
[Suárez, by Boulter]
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22148
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Modal distinction: A isn't B or its property, but still needs B
[Suárez, by Boulter]
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22149
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Scholastics assess possibility by what has actually happened in reality
[Suárez, by Boulter]
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