Supposition is a property of a term relative to another term in a proposition, based on the signification of the term. (Signification is what makes term able to have a role in a proposition.)
In "Running is a participle, Socrates is running, therefore Socrates is a participle", we have a fallacy of four terms, in which the major has 'running' with material supposition and the minor with personal supposition. In "Running is an activity, Socrates is running, therefore Socrates is an activity", we get the same with the major using 'running' with simple supposition.
Medieval logicians generally thought that supposition was always determined by the predicate, because at least some predicates clearly do ('is a genus', 'is a word', etc.).
"'Dog' is used to talk about some kinds of pets" shows that material supposition can clearly presuppose signification.
Hegemons dominate through alliance systems.
Because we often reduce chance by intention and plan, people mistakenly come to think that intentions or plans exclude chance. But a chance event may be intended; it, lacking complete immediate purpose that restricts its possibilities to one, may have an incomplete immediate purpose and a complete mediate purpose, like a dice roll in a game, and one may plan for all the possibilities allowed by a chance event, even bringing them in plan to an inevitable end. Intention and design by nature incorporate necessities and chances.
The same locution may have any mix of illocutionary points -- assertive, commissive, directive, declarative, expressive as illocutionary points do not exclude each other.
We owe persons not merely respect but also truth and love.
To be reasons-responsive is to be responsive to counterfactual and hypothetical possibilities.
"Precepts lead to right actions only if they meet a pliant ingenium." Seneca
elegance as the balance of the useful and agreeable
'the pleasures of friendship, of unreserved conversation, of similarity of taste and opinion'
"Herself a realist, Jane Austen recognized -- as many professed Christians do not -- that Christianity is a realistic religion, with no illusions about the fallen nature of man." David Cecil
The embryo is in the process of being made to make itself alive.
Forms are a kind of sharing of being.
"Freemen (liberales) are the sort of people who ransom prisoners of war." Cicero (Offic. 2.16)
ecclesial right to go // cosmopolitan right
NB that Kant understands 'liberty, equality, fraternity' as a TRS triad on the model of 'substance, cause, community'.
Kant's TRS triads as deliberate analogies of Newton's three laws of motion?
ius civitatis, ius gentium, ius cosmopoliticum as TRS triad
Searle takes acceptives to be commissives, which is certainly wrong (see Searle and Vanderveken)
Even those who touch the hem of the garments of the Mystical Body receive blessing.
The 'sense' in sense of humor, sense of beauty, etc., is capacity for firsthand experience.
One of our most basic experiences of truth is of things as good to know.
syneidesis: Wis 18:11, 1 Tim 1:5, 19; Rm 13:5; 2 Cor 4:2
When the Christian suffers, he can do so as a part of a sort of conspiracy with God.
The notion that feeling guilty is in itself unhealthy has been the source of many a mental illness.
physical contact as causal equivalence of forces
The phenomenological world is our life seen objectively.
Language is the psychopomp.
"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions." CS Lewis
"What expresses or stimulates emotion directly, without the intervention of an image or concept, expresses or stimulates it feebly."
illuminative way = way of infused contemplation
illuminative way // purgatory
Growing up is a matter of learning how to love more wholly.
"The whole foundation of prayer is grounded in humility, and the more a soul abases itself in prayer, the more God exalts it." Teresa of Avila
"Truth is always precious; but all truths are not equally relevant to all persons." E. W. Dicken Trueman
Conscience transcends individual/communal divides.
sophia : Tao : phronesis : Five Constant Virtues
the Lullian method as a method for making philosophical inquiry and argument a spiritual practice
"In the order of ends, objective affirmation is inevitable." Marechal
"Since the formal object of a tendency is the measure of the amplitude of the end whither this tendency keeps striving, we know that the ultimate satiating end of the intellect must be a reality possessing no limiting determinations, that is, a transcendent object, a subsisting infinite."
"To affirm of God that he is possible is the same as to affirm that he exists, since his existence is the condition of every possibility."
When Vaihinger talks about fictions, he means merely 'expedient inventions' that 'deviate' in some way from the real as such. Thus the whole acocunt is really about deliberately constructed beings of reason. But his conception of this is so absurdly broad that anything involving any actino of mind gets counted as a 'fiction'. One falls into the fiction of a hole because of the fiction of gravity, just as what is fictionally classified as an apple falls from what is fictionally classified as a tree, a fictional event we study by the fictional system of fictions we call physics.
"By knowing of the finite as finite, I always co-know the Infinite." Donceel
"Whatever reality we know, we know as limited. But to know a limit as limit means to be, in fact or in striving, beyond this limit. Hence our mind keeps striving beyond any limited reality toward the unlimited reality, the infinitely perfect reality. This implies at least that the infinite by perfect reality is possible."
Mass, force, etc., are functions within a physical theory tied to certain general kinds of measurement.
Change
(1) divides according to complete and incomplete
(2) so as to be virtually multiple (having parts of some kind due to its capabilities)
(3) with indefinitely many parts as measurable by other changes.
before & after with respect to change of containing boundary
'Utter' is just a word for 'outer'; who utters something externalizes it, specifically in speech.
PSR as a precondition for hypothesizing (cp. Mercier) -- recognizing the need for a sufficient reason, a reason is proposed and assessed in that light.
Statistics always depends on classifications.
"For occupancy to be a title to property the following things are necessary: (1) a 'res nullius'; (2) a thing capable of being appropriated; (3) an external act performed in regard to this object and in some way bringing it under the agent's power; (4) a clear manifestation of his intention to possess it permanently and exclusively." Mercier
"Christianity opposes the pretensions of absolutism by its insistence on the rights of the individual, of the family, and of religious society."
Circumcision conferred a jural status under divine positive law, ex opere operato; baptism confers both a jural status and grace ex opere operato.
Baptism, confirmation, ordination, and matrimony confer a jural status ex opere operato; reconciliation has a jural effect (in absolution).
major effects of baptism
(1) sacred
-- (1a) regenerative grace
-- (1b) indelible character
(2) juridical: membership in the Church
-- (2a) under divine law
-- (2b) with rights and privileges under ecclesial law
(3) moral: public allegiance in the community of the Church
Moral causality is either
(1) advisory, or
(2) juridical
-- (a) either conventional, or
-- (b) authoritatively imposed; or
(3) meritorious; or
(4) objective/significant.
A mystery in Casel's sense is an objective cause in sacral order.
The Church is intended to be a holy people, so it is necessary for there to be holy orders constituting it as such. But societies have many orders and it is not required for them all to be holy orders, only those that are genuinely constitutive.
The primary line between 'organized' religion and its opposite seems to be the need for a system to certify and/or credential.
Over the course of salvation history as depicted in Scripture we see a concentration and intensification of symbols.
It's notable that when we try to imagine abstract concepts, we often imagine them as if they were fluids.
-- This could be due to the easy participability of fluids, being capable of portions without fundamental change.
The whole Christ is present in the Church as both Body and New Covenant.
A commemoration of a covenant is always a renewal of some kind, like wedding vows, but not so as to be different, also like wedding vows.
