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1
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Describe the Invincible Ignorance fallacy

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Refusal to accept evidence when presented.

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What 3 main things are known as accidents?

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Quantities, qualities, and relations.

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What is the difference between essence and being?

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Being is generic existence. Essence is the specific nature of something.

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What’s the difference of essence and nature?

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Presumably nothing in Aquinas terms.

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I am a human being, human is my…?

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Essence

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Knowledge of math would be considered what?

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A quality, which is an accident?.

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Difference between accidents and substance?

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Accidents belong to something else, but Substance does not.

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Is Gold a substance or an accident?

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Substance

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What is a primary substance vs a substance?

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A substance is generically a cat or a human. A primary substance is a specific cat or human, like Mary or a pet cat named Tiger.

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10
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What is a T Rex?

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A substance, an essence.

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What is secondary substance?

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Abstract Substance like “Cat” or “Human”

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12
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God’s existence is equal to his…?

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Essence

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13
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What is a thing to which is belongs to be in a subject?

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Accidents

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14
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Does it belong to God’s essence not to belong in something?

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No (I think)

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15
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Is God a substance?

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No

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16
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Is a Substance necessarily a physical object?

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I don’t know…

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17
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What limits a human’s being?

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Their essence, or their human essence.

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18
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What is unique about God’s essence?

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It has no limitation.

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19
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Why is God “Being” itself

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His essence has no limitation upon his being.

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20
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Are humans subsistent?

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No that cannot exist of from themselves.

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21
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Who is subsistent?

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God is Subsistent Being Itself.

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What does Subsistent Being Itself mean?

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God’s essence does not limit his being so he is considered Being itself, and he is subsistent in that he is capable of being by himself.

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23
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What is a necessary being?

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Something that must exist, or that it is impossible not to exist.

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24
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Why is God a necessary being?

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He does not require a cause to give him existence (being), and his essence cannot lose existence (because it is existence itself).

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25
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What is a Possible being?

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It is possible for it to exist

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What is the difference between a possible being and a contingent being?

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Nothing.

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27
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What does a contingent being need to exist?

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A Cause

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28
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What’s the term for a new substance coming into existence?

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Generation

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29
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What is generation?

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When a new substance comes into existence.

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30
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What is corruption?

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When an old substance passes out of existence.

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31
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What is it called when a substance passes out of existence?

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Corruption.

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32
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What does it imply for something to potentially undergo substantial change?

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It is a contingent being if it can go in or out of existence.

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33
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What does Aquinas mean by motion?

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Any kind of change.

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34
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What is actuality?

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What a current being possesses.

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35
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No being can be in a state of actuality and potentiality in respect to…?

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The same thing.

36
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Dying hair purple would be what kind of cause?

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Linear cause, because once the hair is purple, the dye and nature of hair stay that way.

37
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What is an essentially causual series?

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Every item in the series is continuously dependent on it’s direct cause, ie, a book sitting on the table.

38
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What are the 4 types of causes?

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Material, formal, efficient, and final?

39
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Describe the four causes of a statue of a man?

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Material -> Marble
Formal -> Man
Efficient -> The Sculptor
Final Cause -> The statue itself

40
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What is the formal cause of a living thing?

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Soul

41
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How does essence relate to a formal cause?

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Essence takes into account both the formal and material causes.

42
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Why is an essence both a formal and a material cause?

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Because a material cause and a formal cause cannot alone make a complete substance.

43
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What is the active and primary cause of something?

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Formal cause

44
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What kind of cause is the material cause?

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Secondary

45
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Which cause is actuality?

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Formal

46
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Which cause is potentiality?

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Material

47
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What is described by “That by which there is a beginning to motion or rest”

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Efficient Cause

48
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What is wrong with saying the human being is the efficient cause of a statue?

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Because not every human being could sculpt a sculpture, so we want to be more precise and say the Sculptor is the efficient cause.

49
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What is the exemplar cause?

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The preconceived notion of something, or the beginning of the final cause? Like the image of a 3 headed sculpture in one’s mind.

50
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What does predicated mean?

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To base something on something else.

51
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What are the 9 genera of accidents?

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Quantity, Quality, Relation, Action, PAssion, Time, Place, Disposition, Raiment (Vestment)

52
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What is quality?

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An accident - inherent properties non es partum of definition.

53
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What is relation?

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An accident - how something is related to something else

54
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What is habit/disposition?

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An accident - lasting tendency or capability.

55
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What type of accident is that of a crystal’s potential to shatter?

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Habit or disposition.

56
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What type of accident is that of a person’s hair color, brown?

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Quality

57
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What type of accident is that of a person who arrives at work at 8 am every day?

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Habit or disposition

58
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What accident relates to when something occurs?

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time

59
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What accident refers to the physical location of a substance?

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Place

60
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What is the accident of situation?

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Posture or position of something situated in its environment.

61
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Which accident describes a dog catching a ball?

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Action

62
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What accident describes a dog being petted?

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Passion

63
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What accident describes being scared during a thunderstorm?

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Passion

64
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What does Inhere mean?

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To exist within or be a part of something else. Inherited traits. The color brown inheres in my hair.

65
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What is a non-essential property?

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an accident.

66
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What is spiration?

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It is the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son.

67
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verbi in divinis

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Word of God?

68
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What is the antecedent will?

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A will that is considered in itself

69
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What is a consequent will?

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Willing a particular cirumstance, for example a King wills his subjects to live, but not if they betray or revolt. God wills all to be saved, but not if they need be punished.

70
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What is appetitus elicitus?

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The conscious appetite, or, the appetite which follows knowledge.

71
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What is an appetite in basic terms?

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A tendency towards some known thing

72
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Which appetite is the will?

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Appetite of rationality.

73
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Which appetite follows the sense and cognition?

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appetitus sensitivus

74
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Which appetite is bent towards concrete objects?

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appetitus sensitivus

75
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Which appetite is that of the spiritual soul (two terms)?

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appetitus rationalis, or the will

76
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What are the two components of the sensual appetite?

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concupiscible and irascible appetite

77
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What is the concupiscible appetite?

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78
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What are the 6 passions of the Concupiscible appetite?

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Love, joy, hatred, aversion, desire, sadness

79
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To which appetite belong the passions of love and hate?

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Sensual appetite - concupiscible appetite

80
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What is the irascible appetite?

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Sensual appetite association with difficulty and overcoming obstacles

81
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What are the 5 passions of the irascible appetite?

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hope, despair, courage, fear, anger

82
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To which appetite is the passion of hope and courage?

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The sensual appetite - irascible appetite.

83
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What is the faculty of thought?

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The Intellect

84
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What is a hypostasis?

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Generally, a specific living being or individual that exists on its own.

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86
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What is Actus Purus?

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Pure Act, another term for God who has no potentiation.

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