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In English
Habitus Intellectivi
Intellective Habits
In generali:
Intellective Actions
11. Cognoscere = Habere intentionaliter in se
formam (sicut) alterius rei.
12.
(seu.) = aliud fieri inquantum aliud.
In general:
11. To have knowledge = to have intentionally
in oneself a form as the form of another.
12.
(or) = to become another
insofar as other.
13. To understand = to know the essences of
things.
14. To know = to grasp . . .
(a) the cause telling why the thing is,
(b) the fact that it is the cause of it, and
(c) that it cannot be otherwise (the
thing cannot have another cause). .
22. Intentio objectiva = obiectum in quo mens 21. Formal intention = the act itself of the
tendit.
mind tending towards something.
Transcendentalia
55. Induction = progression towards a
58. Transcendentale = universalis modus entis
universal statement from singulars
inquantum entis.
sufficiently enumerated.
59. Ens = id cuius actus est esse.
60.
= id quod habet esse.
61.
= id quod exercet actum essendi.
Act - Potency
68. To be = that by which the being is, or
exists.
Praedicamenta
81. Praedicamentum = genus supremum entis. 77. Obediential potency = the elevability of
nature to an act exceeding all its natural
82. Substantia = id cui competit esse in se et
powers.
non in alia sicut in subiecto.
84. Individuum = indivisum in se et divisum a 79. Necessary = that which cannot not be.
quolibet alio.
80. Contingent = that which can be not.
85. Suppositum = substantia individua
completa in ratione speciei.
Predicaments
86. Subsistentia = modus naturalis positivus
terminans naturam in linea essentiae.
87. Persona = suppositum naturae rationalis.
131. Oppositio privativa = oppositio inter rem 126. Distinct things = those things, one of
eiusque privationem.
which is not the other.
132. Oppositio contratia = oppositio inter ea
quae in eodem genere maxime distant.