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Elementary Course of Christian Philosophy: Based on the Principles of the Best Scholastic Authors is unavailable, but you can change that!

This textbook of Catholic philosophy is almost throughout an exposition of the Thomistic doctrine. Whatever material in the book is not directly derived from St. Thomas is drawn from the rich treasury of Scholastic writers. It begins with a section on Rational philosophy, and covers logic, ideology, and criteriology. The next section is on Real philosophy; it covers general and special...

ideal reproduction of the object perceived; this reproduction is called a mental term, concept, notion, or idea. If the mental term is expressed orally, it is called an oral term or word. 6. An idea is a mere intellectual representation of an object, by which that object is known.—The human intellect is not necessitated by its nature to know any one determinate object. Now, since it is indifferent in this respect, it must, when it actually knows an object, be determined
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