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发帖数: 759 | 1 On the Principles of Nature (De principiis naturae)
by Saint Thomas Aquinas, trans. by Jerry Campbell
Notice carefully that some thing can be although it is not,
whereas another thing truly is. That which can be is called
being in potency; that which already is, is called being in
act. But there are two kinds of being: namely essential
being or
the substantial being of the thing (as, for example, to be a
man) and this is to be absolutely. The other kind of being
is
accidental being (as, for exam |
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