AScholasticListofDefinitionsforPhilosophicalTerms

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HabitusIntellectivi

1.Intellectus=habitusprimorum
principiorumspeculativorum.

2.Sapientia=cognitiorerumomniumper
altissimascausas.

3.Scientia=cognitiocertapercausas.

4.Ars=rectaratiofactibilium.

5.Prudentia=rectaratioagibilium.

6.Theologia=scientiadeDeoex
Revelationeprocedens.

7.Philosophia=scientiarerumomniumper
causasaltissimas,naturalirationecomparata.

8.Metaphysica=scientiaentisinquantum
entis.

9.Criteriologia=parsmetaphisicae
defensivaprincipiorumcognitionishumanae.

10.Synderesis=habitusprimorum
principiorumpracticorum.

ActusIntellettivi

IntellectiveHabits

1.Understanding=thehabitofthefirst
speculativeprinciples.

2.Wisdom=knowledgeofallthingsbythe
highestcauses.

3.Science=certainknowledgethrough
causes.

4.Art=therightreasonofthingstobemade.

5.Prudence=therightreasonofthingstobe
done(operations).

6.Theology=scienceofGodproceeding
fromRevelation.

7.Philosophy=scienceofallthingsthrough
thehighestcauses,obtainedbynatural
reason.

8.Metaphysics=scienceofbeinginsofaras
being.

9.Criteriology=partofmetaphysicswhich
defendstheprinciplesofhuman
knowledge.

10.Synderesis=habitofthefirstpractical
principles.

Ingenerali:

11.Cognoscere=Habereintentionaliterinse
IntellectiveActions
formam(sicut)alteriusrei.

12.
(seu.)=aliudfieriinquantum
Ingeneral:
aliud.

11.Tohaveknowledge=tohaveintentionally

inoneselfaformastheformof
13.Intelligere=cognoscerererumessentias.
another.

12.
(or)=tobecome
14.Scire=cognoscerecausampropterquam
anotherinsofarasother.
resest,quodhuiuscausaest,etnonpotest

alitersehabere.
13.Tounderstand=toknowtheessencesof

things.

14.Toknow=tograsp...
15.Sentire=cognoscerererummaterialium

(a)thecausetellingwhythethingis,
qualitatespatibiles.

(b)thefactthatitisthecauseofit,and

(c)thatitcannotbeotherwise(the
16.Veritas=adequatioreietintellectus.
thingcannothaveanothercause)..

17.Veritaslogica=adequatiointellectusad 15.Tosense=toknowthepassiblequalities
rem.
ofmaterialthings.

18.Veritasontologica=adequatioreiad
16.Truth=conformityofthingandintellect.
intellectum.

17.Logicaltruth=conformityofintellectto

thing.
19.Intentioprima=actusquomensinens

realetendit.
18.Ontologicaltruth=conformityofthingto

intellect.
20.Intentiosecunda=actusquomensinens

rationistendit.
19.Firstintention=theactbywhichthemind

tendstoarealbeing.
21.Intentioformalis=ipseactusmentis

tendentisinaliquid.
20.Secondintention=theactbywhichthe

mindtendstoabeingofreason.

22.Intentioobjectiva=obiectuminquo
21.Formalintention=theactitselfofthe
menstendit.
mindtendingtowardssomething.

22.Objectiveintention=theobjecttowards
PrimaOperatioIntellectus
whichthemindtends.

23.Simplexapprehensio=operatioqua
FirstOperationoftheIntellect
intellectusaliquamquidditatemintelligit,

quinquidquamdeeaaffirmet.
23.Simpleapprehension=theoperationby

whichtheintellectunderstandssome
24.Abstractio=operatiointellectusagentis
quidditywithoutaffirminganything
quaexpluribusinreconiunctisunumsine
aboutit.
alteroconsiderat.

24.Abstraction=thisoperationoftheagent
25.Ensrationis=ensquodhabetesse
intellectwhichconsidersonething
obiectiveinintellectutantum.
withoutanotheroutofseveralunitedin

reality.
26.Negatio=ensrationisquononensad

modumentisconcipitur.
25.Beingofreason=beingwhichhas

objectivebeingintheintellectalone.

27.Conceptus=simplexintellectualis
26.Negation=beingofreasonbywhich
repraesentatioquidditatisalicuiusrei.
nonbeingisconceivedasabeing

(Gredt110negation=genusofthe
28.Notio=Propriaratioquaresmenti
beingofreason).
innotescit.

27.Concept=simpleintellectual

representationofthequiddityof
29.Analogia=habitudodiversoruminterse
something.
vicuiuseodemnominedesignantur.

28.Notion=properreasonbywhichthething
30.Analogiaattributionis=habitudounius
ismadeknowntothemind.
velpluriumadaliquodunumvicuiusnomen

quodhuicconvenitinsensuproprioetstricto 29.Analogy=themutualrelationofdiverse
deillovelillisdicitur.
thingsbywhichtheyaredesignatedby

thesamename.
31.Analogiaproportionalitatis=aequalitas

duarumproportionuminterse.


32.Notaeconceptus=elementavelaspectus
intelligibileshuiusconceptusquosmensin
eodiscernitetquiadeumpertinent
necessarie.

33.Terminus(oralis)=voxsignificativaad
placitum.

34.Universale=unumaptuminesse
pluribus.

35.Universaleinessendo=unanaturain
multis.

36.Universaleinpraedicando=unanatura
demultis.

37.Praedicabile=modusuniversalitatisquo
unumpluribusinessepotestetdeipsis
praedicari.

38.Genus=universalerespiciensinferiora
speciedistincta,INQUIDINCOMPLETE.

39.Species=universalerespiciensinferiora
numerodistincta,INQUIDCOMPLETE.

40.Differentiaspecifica=universale
respiciensinferiora,INQUALEQUID.

41.Proprium=universalerespiciens
inferiora,inqualeaccidentaliteretnecessarie.

42.Accidens=universalerespiciens
inferiora,inqualeaccidentaliteret
contingenter.

30.Analogyofattribution=therelationof
oneorseveralthingstosomeonething
bywhichthenameappliesproperly
andstrictlytothelatterissaidalsoof
theformer(s).

31.Analogyofproportion=themutual
equalityoftwoproportions.

32.Thenotesofaconcept=theintelligible
elementsoraspectsofthisconcept
whichtheminddiscernsandwhich
belongtoitnecessarily.

33.Term(oral)=arbitraryvocalsign.

34.Universal=oneapttobeinherentin
many.

35.Universalinbeing=onenatureinmany.

36.Universalaspredicable=onenaturesaid
ofmany.

37.Predicable=themodeofuniversalityby
whichonethingcanbeinmanyandbe
predicatedofthem.

38.Genus=theuniversalinregardstoits
inferiorsspecificallydistinctwith
incompletequiddity.

39.Species=theuniversalinregardstoits
inferiorsnumericallydistinct,with
completequiddity.


40.Specificdifference=theuniversalin
43.Suppositio=terminiprorealiqua
regardstoitsinferiors,asqualifying
significandausurpatio.
thequiddity.

SecundaOperatioIntellectus
41.Proper=theuniversalinregardstoits

inferiors,asqualifyingaccidentally
44.Iudicium=actusintellectusquocomponit
andnecessarily.
veldividitaffirmandovelnegando.

42.Accident=theuniversalinregardstoits
45.Assensus=actusquointellectusinhaeret
inferiors,asqualifyingaccidentally
iudicioformato.
andcontingently.

46.Oratio=sequentiaterminorum.
43.Supposition=theuseofthetermto

signifysomething.
47.Propositio=oratioquaealiquiddealiquo

affirmatvelnegat.
SecondOperationoftheIntellect

48.Divisio=oratioremvelnomenpersuas
44.Judgment=theactoftheintellectwhich
partesdistribuens.
composesordividesbyaffirmingor

denying.
49.Definitio=orationaturamreiauttermini

significationemexponens.
45.Assent=theactbywhichtheintellect

adherestoagivenjudgment.
50.Primumprincipium=propositioperse

notaomnibus.
46.Oration(phrase)=sequenceofterms.

51.Conscientiamoralis=iudiciumrationis
47.Proposition=aphrasewhichaffirmsor
practicaecircamoralitatemactionum.
deniessomethingaboutsomething.

TertiaOperatioIntellectus
48.Division=asentencewhichseparatesa

thingoranounintodifferentparts.
52.Ratiocinium=actusmentisquo

convenientiavelrepuqnantiaduarum
49.Definition=thesequencewhichexposes
idearuminferturexproportionequamhabent
thenatureofathingorthe
cumunatertianotione.
significationofaterm.

53.Argumentum=oratiosignificans
50.Firstprinciple=apropositionknowntoall
sequelamuniusexalio.
necessarily(perse).

54.Syllogismus=ratiociniumquo,duabus
51.Moralconscience=thejudgmentofthe
propositionibuspositis,aliainfertur
practicalreasonconcerningthe
necessarieexipsapositioneantecedentium.
moralityoftheacts.

55.Inductio=asingularibussufficienter
ThirdOperationsoftheIntellect
enumeratis,aduniversaleprogressio.

52.Reasoning=theactofthemindbywhich

theconvenienceordisconvenienceof
56.Demonstratio=syllogismusfaciensscire.
twoideasisinferredbytheproportion
57.
=syllogismusconstans
(conformity/difformity)whichthey
exveris,primis,immediatis,prioribus,
havetoathirdnotion.
notioribuscausisqueconclusionis.

53.Argument=aphrasewhichsignifiesthe

passageofonethingfromanother.
Transcendentalia

54.Syllogism=reasoningbywhich,outof
58.Transcendentale=universalismodus
twoproportions,anotherisnecessarily
entisinquantumentis.
inferredfromtheaffirmationofthe

premises.
59.Ens=idcuiusactusestesse.

60. =idquodhabetesse.
55.Induction=progressiontowardsa
61. =idquodexercetactumessendi.
universalstatementfromsingulars

sufficientlyenumerated.
62.Res=synonymumentisdicenspotius

eiusessentiam.
56.Demonstration=asyllogismwhichmakes

somethingknown.
63.Unum=ensindivisum.
57.
=asyllogismbasedon

thetrue,first,immediate,properand
64.Aliquid=ensdivisumabaliisetanon
moreknowncausesoftheconclusion.
ente.

Transcendentals

65.Verum=ensrelateadintellectum.
58.Transcendentalauniversalmodeofbeing

insofarasbeing.
66.Bonum=ensrelateadappetitum.

59.Being=thatwhoseactistobe.
67.Pulchrum=idquodapprehensumplacet.
60.
=thatwhichhasbeing.


ActusPotentia

68.Esse=idquoens
est
,velexsistit.

69.Exsistere=poniextracausasetextra
nihil.

70.Consistere=excomponentibuscomponi.

71.Actus=entitasperficiensetdeterminans
reminsuoordine.

72.Perfectio=(late)actualitasquaecumque.
73.
=(stricte)plenitudoentiscui
nullusdeficitactusadeiusplenam
actualitatemrequisitus.

74.Potentia=entitasimperfectacapax
perfectionis.

75.Privatio=carentiaperfectionisin
subiectoapto.

76.Malum=privatiobonidebiti.

77.Potentiaobedientialis=elevabilitas
naturaeadactumexcedentemomnes
naturalesvires.

78.Motus=actusentisinpotentiaquatenus
inpotentia.

79.Necessarium=idquodnonpotestnon
esse.

61.

=thatwhichexercisestheact
ofbeing.

62.Thing=asynonymofbeingsayingrather
itsessence.

63.One=undividedbeing.

64.Something=beingdividedfromothers
andnonbeing.

65.True=beinginrelationtotheintellect.

66.Good=beinginrelationtothewill.

67.Beautiful=whatpleaseswhen
apprehended.

ActPotency

68.Tobe=thatbywhichthebeingis,or
exists.

69.Toexist=tobeplacedoutsideofits
causesandoutofnothing.

70.Toconsist=tobecomposedoutof
components.

71.Act=anentitywhichperfectsand
determinesathingaccordingtoits
nature.

72.Perfection=(broadsense)anyact/entity
73.
=(strictsense)theplenitudeof
abeingwhichislackingnoact
necessarytoitsfullactuation.

80.Contingens=idquodpotestnonesse.

74.Potency=imperfectentitycapableof
Praedicamenta
perfection.

81.Praedicamentum=genussupremum
75.Privation=lackofperfectionina
entis.
disposedsubject.

82.Substantia=idcuicompetitesseinseet
76.Evil=privationofaduegood.
noninaliasicutinsubiecto.

77.Obedientialpotency=theelevabilityof
83.Subsistere=esseinseetnoninaliosicut
naturetoanactexceedingallits
insubiecto.
naturalpowers.

84.Individuum=indivisuminseetdivisum 78.Movement=theactofabeinginpotency
aquolibetalio.
insofarasitisinpotency.

85.Suppositum=substantiaindividua
79.Necessary=thatwhichcannotnotbe.
completainrationespeciei.

80.Contingent=thatwhichcanbenot.
86.Subsistentia=modusnaturalispositivus

terminansnaturaminlineaessentiae.
Predicaments

87.Persona=suppositumnaturaerationalis.
81.Predicament=thesupremegenusof

being.
88.Personalitas=subsistentiapersonae.

82.Substance=thattowhichitbelongstobe
89.Materia=idexquoaliquidfit.
initselfandnotinanotherasina

subject.
90.Materiaprima=subiectumprimumex

quo,cuminsit,fitaliquidetnonperaccidens.
83.Tosubsist=tobeinitselfandnotin

anotherasinasubject.

91.Forma=elementumdeterminativum
84.Individual=athingundividedinitselfand
cuiuscumqueessentiae.
dividedfromeverythingelse.

92.Essentia=idquoensestidquodest.
85.Supposit=anindividuatedsubstance

completeinitsspecies.

93.Natura=principiumetcausamotuset
quietiseiusinquoestperseetnonsecundum
accidens.

94.Species=formadeterminanscomplete
essentiamrei.

95.Quidditas=synonymumessentiae,quo
respondeturquaestionisuperrem"quidest?'

96.Anima=actusprimuscorporisin
potentiaviventis.

97.Vita=suimotio.

98.Accidens=idcuicompetitesseinalioet
noninsesicutinsubiectoinhaesionis.

99.Qualitas=accidensdeterminativumseu
modificativumsubstantiaeinseipsa.

100.Habitus=qualitasstabilisdisponens
subiectumadbenevelmaleessesiveoperari.

101.Dispositio=qualitasfacilemobilis
disponenssubiectumadbenevelmaleesse
siveoperari.

102.Potentia(operativa)=principium
proximumagendisimpliciteretabsolute.

103.Patibilisqualitas=accidensdiu
permanenssensibilemalterationemcausans
velabalterationesensibilicausatum.

86.Subsistence=apositiveandnaturalmode
terminatingthenatureinthelineof
essence.

87.Person=thesuppositofarationalnature.

88.Personality=thesubsistenceofaperson.

89.Matter=thatoutofwhichsomething
becomes.

90.Primematter=thefirstsubjectoutof
which,somethingwhileinit,becomes
butnotbyaccident.

91.Form=thedeterminativeelementofevery
essence.

92.Essence=thatbywhichabeingiswhatit
is.

93.Nature=theprincipleandcauseofmotion
andrestofathinginwhichitis
necessarilyandnotaccidentally.

94.Species=theformdetermining
completelytheessenceofathing.

95.Quiddity=asynonymofessencesby
whichoneanswersthequestionabout
athing,"
what
isit?"

96.Soul=thefirstactofabodylivingin
potency.

97.Life=selfmotion.

104.FormavelFigura=qualitasseumodus
incorporeexterminationequantitatis.

105.Intellectus=potentiacognoscitiva
essentiarumrerum.

106.Appetitusinclinatiosequensformam.

107.Voluntas=appetitusintellectivus.

108.Beatitudo=bonumperfectum
intellectualisnaturae.

109.Quantitas=accidensextensivum
substantiaeinpartes.

110.Relatio=accidenscuiustotuminesse
estadaliudsehabere.

111.Actio=motuspotentiaeoperativaeuta
potentiaprocedens.

112.Passio=accidensperquodsubiectum
constituituracturecipienseffectumab
agente.

113.Ubi=idrationecuiusresinloco
constituitur.

114.Locus=corporisambientisterminus
primusimmobilis.

115.Situs=accidensdisponensremlocatam
inordineadlocum

=ordopartiuminloco.

98.Accident=thattowhichitbelongstobe
inanotherannotinitselfasina
subject.

99.Quality=accidentdeterminingor
modifyingthesubstanceinitself.

100.Habit=stablequalitydisposingthe
subjecttobeoractwellorbad.

101.Disposition=qualityeasilymobile
disposingthesubjecttobeoractwell
orbad.

102.Operativepotency=proximateprinciple
ofactingsimplyandabsolutely.

103.Passiblequality=alastingaccident
causingasensiblealterationorcaused
byasensiblealteration.

104.Form/figure=qualityormodeinthe
bodyproducedbythecompletionof
quantity.

105.Intellect=thepowerofknowingthe
essencesofthings.

106.Appetite=theinclination
seeking/followingaform.

107.Will=intellectiveappetite.

108.Beatitude=perfectgoodofthe
intellectivenature.

109.Quantity=theaccidentwhichextends
thesubstanceintodifferentparts.


116.Quando=accidensinredurante,ex
adiacentionetemporisaquoreiilliusduratio
mensuratusest.

117.Tempus=numerusmotussecundum
priusetposterius.

118.Habitus=illaaffectioquaeinsubiecto
exvestimentoresultat.

RelationesComparationes

119.Relatio=ordouniusadaliud.

120.Relatiotranscendentalis=ordoentis
absolutiperseordinati.

121.Signum=idquodpraeterspeciemquam
ingeritsensibusfacitaliquidaliudin
cognitionemdevenire.

122.Principium=idaquoaliquidprocedit
quocumquemodo.

123.Causa=omnequodinfluitesserei.

124.Causaefficiens=idquodactionesua
remproducitinesse.

125.Causafinalis=idpropterquodaliquid
fit.

126.Distincta=eaquorumunumnonest
aliud.

110.Relation=theaccidentwhosewhole
beingistobeorderedtoanother.

111.Action=themovementoftheoperative
powerinsofarasitproceedsfromthe
power.

112.Passion=theaccidentbywhichthe
subjectbecomesthereceiverinactof
theeffectoftheagent.

113.Where=thatbywhichathingis
constitutedinaplace.

114.Place=firstimmobileextremityofthe
surfaceofabody.

115.Position=accidentdisposingthething
localizedinrelationtotheplacethe
orderofthepartsintheplace.

116.When=accidentofathingwhichhas
someduration,whichismeasuredby
additionoftime.

117.Time=measureofthemovement
accordingtobeforeandafter.

118.Habit=thatparticularadditiontothe
subjectwhichresultsfromagarment.

RelationsComparisons

119.Relation=theorderofonethingto
another.

127.Diversa=eaquaenullamconvenientiam
habent,etseipsisdifferunt.

128.Differentia=eaquaealiquam
convenientiamhabentetperaliquid
superadditumdifferunt.

129.Oppositio=habitudopluriumintersevi
cuiuseidemsubeodemaspectusimul
convenirenequeunt.

130.Oppositiocontradictoria=oppositio
interremeiusquenegationem.

131.Oppositioprivativa=oppositiointer
remeiusqueprivationem.

132.Oppositiocontratia=oppositiointerea
quaeineodemgeneremaximedistant.

133.Oppositiorelativa=oppositiointerea
quaeordinemsiverespectumadinvicem
dicunt.

134.Aeternitas=interminabilisvitaetota
simuletperfectapossessio.

135.Creatio=productioexnihiloetsubjecti

120.Transcendentalrelation=theorderofan
absolutebeingorderednecessarily(per
se).

121.Sign=thatwhich,besidesthespecies
producedinthesenses,revealsthe
knowledgeofsomethingelse.

122.Principle=thatfromwhichsomething
proceedsinanyway.

123.Cause=whateverinfluencesthebeingof
athing.

124.Efficientcause=thatwhichbyitsaction
producesthethinginexistence.

125.Finalcause=thatforthesakeofwhich
somethingbecomes.

126.Distinctthings=thosethings,oneof
whichisnottheother.

127.Diversethings=thosethingswhichhave
nothingincommon,anddifferamong
themselves.

128.Differentthings=thosethingswhich
havesomethingincommon,anddiffer
bysomeaddition.

129.Opposition=relationbetweenseveral
thingsbywhichtheycannotagreein
thesamethingunderthesameaspect
simultaneously.

130.Contradictoryopposition=the
oppositionbetweenathingandits
negation.

131.Privativeopposition=theopposition
betweenathinganditsprivation.

132.Contraryopposition=theopposition
betweenthosethingswhicharemost
distantinthesamegenus.

133.Relativeopposition=theopposition
betweenthosethingwhichare
ordainedorhaverespecttoeachother.

134.Eternity=wholesome,simultaneous,and
perfectpossessionoftheinterminable
life.

135.Creation=productionfromnothingofits
ownorofthesubjects.