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Diverse conceptions of being and nonbeing, being as a term or concept, the meanings of is and is not, nothingness. |
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Being and the one and the many. |
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Infinite being and the plurality of finite beings. |
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The unity of a being. |
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Being and good. |
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The hierarchy of being, grades of reality, degrees of intelligibility. |
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Being as the object of love and desire. |
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Being and truth. |
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Being as the pervasive object of mind, and the formal object of the first philosophy, metaphysics, or dialectic. |
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Being as the measure of truth in judgments of the mind, clarity and distinctness as criteria of the reality of an idea. |
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Being and becoming, the reality of change, the nature of mutable being. |
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The cause of existence. |
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The divisions or modes of being. |
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The distinction between essence and existence, existence as the act of being. |
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The distinction between substance and attribute, accident or modification, independent and dependent being. |
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The conceptions of substance. |
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Corporeal and spiritual substances, composite and simple substances, the kinds of substance in relation to matter and form. |
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Corruptible and incorruptible substances. |
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Extension and thought as dependent substances or as attributes of infinite substance. |
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Substance as subject to change and to different kinds of change, the role of accidents or modifications. |
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The nature and kinds of accidents or modifications. |
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The distinction between potentiality and actuality, possible and actual being. |
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The order of potentiality and actuality. |
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Types of potency and degrees of actuality. |
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Potentiality and actuality in relation to matter and form. |
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The distinction between real and ideal being, or between natural being and being in mind. |
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The being of the possible. |
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The being of ideas, universals, rights. |
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The being of mathematical objects. |
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The being of relations. |
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The being of fictions and negations. |
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The distinction between appearance and reality, between the sensible and supra-sensible, between the phenomenal and noumenal orders. |
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Being and knowledge. |
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Being and becoming in relation to sense, perception and imagination. |
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Being and becoming in relation to intellect, abstraction and intuition. |
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Essence or substance as the object of definition, real and nominal essences. |
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The role of essence in demonstration, the use of essence, property, and accident in inference. |
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The accidental in relation to science and definition. |
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Judgments and demonstrations of existence, their sources and validity. |
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