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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...

of men. It directly expresses the idea, and through this the object itself; but habit leads us usually to unite the idea of the word with the idea of the thing. 8. Ideas are concrete or abstract, clear or obscure, distinct or confused, complete or incomplete.—Considered with reference to the manner in which the object is presented to the intellect, an idea is concrete when the object is apprehended in its physical reality with all its belongings; as the idea of a “learned
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