Doyle, John P.,  1930- <br/><br/>
On the borders of being and knowing  some late scholastic thoughts on supertranscendental being / 
 Some late scholastic thoughts on supertranscendental being 
John P. Doyle ; edited by Victor M. Salas. 
 - Leuven, Belgium :  Leuven University Press,  (c)2012. 
 - 1 online resource (xvi, 326 pages) 
 - Ancient and medieval philosophy. Series I ;  44 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Sprouts from Greek gardens : Antisthenes, Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics --  Suárez on beings of reason and truth --  Extrinsic cognoscibility --  Impossible objects --  The teleology of impossible objects --  Beings of reason and imagination --  Four degrees of abstraction --  From transcendental to transcendental --  Supertranscendental nothing --  Wrestling with a wraith --  The borders of knowability --  Conclusion. 
<br/><br/> Sylvester Mauro, S.J. (1619-1687) noted that human intellects can grasp what is, what is not, what can be, and what cannot be. The first principle, 'it is not possible that the same thing simultaneously be and not be, ' involves them all. The present volume begins with Greeks distinguishing 'being' from 'something' and proceeds to the late Scholastic doctrine of 'supertranscendental being', which embraces both. On the way is Aristotle's distinction between 'being as being' and 'being as true' and his extension of the latter to include impossible objects. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9461660685 9789461660688 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ontology.<br/>Knowledge, Theory of.<br/>Transcendentals.<br/>Transcendentalism.<br/>Scholasticism.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BD331  / .O584 2012