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1 online resource (xvi, 326 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Ancient and medieval philosophy. Series I ; 44
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Ancient and medieval philosophy. Series 1 ; 44.
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| Summary |
Sylvester Mauro, S.J. (1619-1687) noted that human intellects can grasp what is, what is not, what can be, and what cannot be. The first principle, 'it is not possible that the same thing simultaneously be and not be, ' involves them all. The present volume begins with Greeks distinguishing 'being' from 'something' and proceeds to the late Scholastic doctrine of 'supertranscendental being', which embraces both. On the way is Aristotle's distinction between 'being as being' and 'being as true' and his extension of the latter to include impossible objects. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-318) and index. |
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Sprouts from Greek gardens : Antisthenes, Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics -- Suárez on beings of reason and truth -- Extrinsic cognoscibility -- Impossible objects -- The teleology of impossible objects -- Beings of reason and imagination -- Four degrees of abstraction -- From transcendental to transcendental -- Supertranscendental nothing -- Wrestling with a wraith -- The borders of knowability -- Conclusion. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
Text in English with extensive quotations from source documents in Latin. |
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Suárez, Francisco, 1548-1617.
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Suárez, Francisco, 1548-1617. |
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Suárez, Francisco, 1548-1617. |
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Ontology.
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Ontology. |
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Knowledge, Theory of. |
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Transcendentals.
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Transcendentals. |
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Transcendentalism.
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Transcendentalism. |
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Scholasticism.
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Scholasticism. |
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Electronic books.
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Salas, Victor M.
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| Added Title |
Some late scholastic thoughts on supertranscendental being |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Doyle, John P., 1930- On the borders of being and knowing. Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, ©2012 9461660685 (DLC) 2012387592 |
| ISBN |
9461660685 (electronic book) |
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9789461660688 (electronic book) |
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9789058678959 |
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9058678954 |
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