BOOK V

Lexicon of Philosophical Terms

CONTENTS

Book V

Lesson 1.  Five Senses of the Term Principle. The Common Definition of Principle

Lesson 2.  The Four Classes of Causes. Several Causes of the Same Effect. Causes May Be Causes of Each Other. Contraries have the Same Cause

Lesson 3.  All Causes Reduced to Four Classes

Lesson 4.  The Proper Meaning of Element. Elements in Words, in Natural Bodies, and in Demonstrations. Transferred Usages of Element and Their Common Basis

Lesson 5.  Five Senses of the Term Nature

Lesson 6.  Four Senses of the Term Necessary. Its First and Proper Sense. Immobile Things, though Necessary, Are Exempted from Force

Lesson 7.  The Kinds of Accidental Unity and of Essential Unity

Lesson 8.  The Primary Sense of One. One in the Sense of Complete. One as the Principle of Number. The Ways in Which Things Are One. The Ways in Which Things Are Many

Lesson 9.  Division of Being into Accidental and into Essential. The Types of Accidental and of Essential Being

Lesson 10.  Meanings of Substance

Lesson 11.  The Ways in Which Things Are the Same Essentially and Accidentally

Lesson 12.  Various Senses of Diverse, of Different, of Like, of Contrary, and of Diverse in Species

Lesson 13.  The Ways in Which Things Are Prior and Subsequent

Lesson 14.  Various Senses of the Terms Potency, Capable, Incapable, Possible and Impossible

Lesson 15.  The Meaning of Quantity. Its Kinds. The Essentially and Accidentally Quantitative

Lesson 16.  The Senses of Quality

Lesson 17.  The Senses of Relative

Lesson 18.  The Senses of Perfect

Lesson 19.  The Senses of Limit, of According to Which, of In Itself, and of Disposition

Lesson 20.  The Meanings of Disposition, of Having, of Affection, of Privation, and of To Have

Lesson 21.  The Meanings of To Come from Something, of Part, of Whole and of Mutilated

Lesson 22.  The Meanings of Genus, of Falsity, and of Accident