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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...

universal, otherwise it will have a term more extended here than in the premises; as in the syllogism, “Some men are rational animals; some men are poets; therefore all rational animals are poets.” VIII. Two particulars afford no conclusion; because if both are affirmative, the middle term is necessarily twice particular; as, “Some students are industrious; some industrious persons are successful; therefore all students are successful.” If one of the two is negative, the conclusion must contain a
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