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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...

is composed of three elements: subject, attribute, and copula. To these three elements of the judgment correspond the three elements of the proposition: two terms, which express the subject and predicate or attribute, and the copula, which unites them. The subject is generally a noun, the attribute an adjective; the copula is a verb. The copula is called a verb, because the word (verbum) of our mind is not complete without a judgment, and judgment is formally constituted only by the copula. The verb
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