a mechanical engineer and a huge lover of philosophy ( kantianism and scholasticism ) and history ( Mesopotamian and persian history ) 📚
Oct 22 • 23 tweets • 3 min read
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You assume the essence of accident is actual inherence. I deny it. the essence lies neither in actual nor aptitudinal inherence, but in the radical/root that grounds both (“otherness,” “fundamental inherence”).
Call this radical being-in: the positive formal constituent by which an accident can inhere prior to any act of inhering. That, not the act, is what makes an accident be accident as such.
Sep 4, 2024 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
“it is proven by this argument of Scotus: A person having a perfect productive principle of some term, before that term is understood as produced, can use that principle and produce that term. But the Son of God has the divine will,
which is the perfect productive principle of the Holy Spirit, before the Holy Spirit is understood as produced. Therefore, by that will he can produce the Holy Spirit. Therefore he does produce, because in divine things to be able is the same as to be.
Aug 30, 2024 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
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The Formal distinction of The Scotists
All Scotists would argue for the necessity of the formal distinction in philosophical and theological analyses, contrary to the views of Thomists, Nominalists, and Suarists, who reject it as unintelligible and unnecessary.
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The Scotists' main argument for the formal distinction is reasoning from the way of contradiction ( ex via contradictionis )
Aug 29, 2024 • 20 tweets • 3 min read
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The Scotist general theory of distinctions.
now this is crucial for understanding the Scotist formal distinction and its role in the issue of metaphysical grades and metaphysical universals, but we can’t do that without talking for a bit about identity.
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The idea of identity is something that everyone understands intuitively, even before trying to formally define or explain it. We couldn't attempt to intellectually examine the concept of identity without already having this basic understanding of what it means.
Nov 19, 2023 • 16 tweets • 2 min read
Praemotio physica part 3
1/16 Now divine physical premotion is necessary in the operation of all movables, whether free or not, because every finite being that acts contains a metaphysical composition of essence and act of being ( esse ). Everything that is composed is caused.
2/16 Just as finite beings receive from God the act of being ( esse ) since they are metaphysically composed, they also receive their operative efficacy since their operation does not identify with an essence that is pure being.
