Quiz 4 (Chapter 4)

Question 1

What is a sign?

Answer 1

are the concepts and signs for real things

Question 2

What is an instrumental sign

Answer 2

Is a thing that exist in its own right

Question 3

What is a formal sign

Answer 3

is a sign that has no existence apart from its role

Question 4

What is an abstraction

Answer 4

The act of an intellect that apprehends a nature that is common to many objects and apprehend the phantasms representating the individual objects

Question 5

What do we mean by the essence of a thing

Answer 5

Distinguishing the accidents that belong to the individual object.

The essence exist in the thing kind of thing it is.

Question 6

What is an accident

Answer 6

The attributes that belong or not belong to an object while its remains the same in kind.

Question 7

What is a concept

Answer 7

Signifying an object or an thought is a sign of what’s to.

Question 8

Why is the essence of thing unimaginable

Answer 8

Essence can be a thought of certain attributes

sensible = imaginable

Question 9

Compare and contrast words and concepts

Answer 9

Words: is an affection in the soul where the conception of the intellect.

Common nouns signify the Concept by the represent a nature