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THE HWGHEE OF DOGLOR OF. PHILOSOFEY
BY
CORTLNGINOY
THE MODERN SoLasTIcs
JANUARY 19551%
SROPOSTTIONS
Forma ot materia aunt sibi invicem causa,
Oma nomen cum defectu est,
Finis cet nobilior {isy quae sunt ad finem,
Ba quae aliguendo fuerunt vel erunt, licet de praesenti
non sint, Deus cognoscit praesentiallter in sua aeterni+
teto per scientiam visionis; guse vero negue sunt, neque
fuernnt, neque srunt eognesclt per acientiam aimplicia
intelligenti
Quae sunt eadem imi tertio sunt eadem inter ae.FOREWORD ¥
CHAPTER I LOGICAL POSSIBILITY
1. Potenoy and posstbilitysserseeece z
2. The logically possible. is defined
aecording to a non-repugnence of terme. 9
3. The logieslly possible embraces
both necessery end contingent beingsess. 17
CHAPUSR IT _ PHYSICAL POSSIBILITY AND
‘WHE DIVISIONS OF CONTINGENCY
1. The possible "per potentlen in eltero"., 22
2. the threefold genus of contingsncys.see. 25
3e Physioal poseibility
34
and intrinsic contingonoyseessssseseeers
CHAPTER TIT ABSOLUTE AND CONDITIONAL
NECESSITY
1. The two kinds of necessity
defined and expleined.
2. Necessity and the Modern Scholesticase..
3. The “hypothetical necessity
of the lews of nature” sesesessscvesseees 77