TY - BOOK AU - Doyle,John P. AU - Salas,Victor M. TI - On the borders of being and knowing: some late scholastic thoughts on supertranscendental being T2 - Ancient and medieval philosophy. Series I SN - 9461660685 AV - BD331 .O584 2012 PY - 2012/// CY - Leuven, Belgium PB - Leuven University Press KW - Ontology KW - Knowledge, Theory of KW - Transcendentals KW - Transcendentalism KW - Scholasticism KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=549940&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -