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Can someone help me identify the terms of art to use for the following sort of ambiguity? Suppose A is prospecting for gold but finds only fool's gold. Back at the saloon, A says, "I panned for fool's gold." I.e. the thing A panned for, and intended to pan for, gold, turned out not to be t...

If there is a genus F, then is it the case that for all x, if x is F, x must be in the genus F? If you say that there is a genus F, then you are saying that there are species which are defined with F as their genus. Of such species which belong in genus F, F is predicated of them. Every genus is pr...

Thank you, -1-. I had been thinking something similar but not identical, i.e. that the First Mover is the sole member of a species within the genus of movers. And of course, from the POV of Aristotle's categories, the genus in play here is not in the category of substance but relation or maybe possi...

I posted this in the Logic and Philosophy of Math subforum but was advised to post here. My question was, from an A-T point of view, if something has a predicate F, is it in a genus or species F? I am thinking of genus as in Aristotle's Categories and throughout his works. In Ari, a genus is a "...

Thank you. I've only posted 6 times on here, or thereabouts. But I'll try moving this to the religion subforum. I posted here because I thought the question of predication and genus had to do with logic.

Many thanks for answering. I am thinking of genus as in Aristotle's Categories and throughout his works. In Ari, a genus is a "kind," which is divided into species by various differentiae. I.e. "There are kinds in the sense in which plane is the kind of plane figures and solid of soli...

If there is a genus F, then is it the case that for all x, if x is F, x must be in the genus F? (In asking this question I leave out the problem of analogical predication of names of God.)

Thank you, f

Actually, Thomas himself notes that in natural corruption, the matter persists while the form is replaced by another form: “in generatione naturali quando corruptio unius est generatio alterius per hoc quod forma una inducitur et alia expellitur, remotio formae praeexistentis se tenet ex parte causa...

Thank you for the answers, everyone. I may be unfamiliar with a discussion somewhere within Aquinas' vast corpus. As far as I'm aware, he does not demonstrate that when something passes away, it passes away into pure nothingness. As I said in my OP, it seems to me that he trades on this possibility ...

Here is another "issue" of mine with Thomism. In his Third Way of proving God’s existence (ST 1a Q. 2 Art. 3), Aquinas appeals to our experience that some things can exist or not exist, since things are found to be generated and pass away. But when a thing passes away, on Aristotelian assu...

I have various "issues" with Thomism and am not sure whether I'm right when I suspect errors in that system. I post one "issue" here, in case anyone would like to discuss, and I'll make a separate thread for another one. Aquinas’ doctrine of analogical predication does not seem t...