Side-note: Characteristic marks of the philosopher--He contemplates and knows Entia or unchangeable Forms, as distinguished from fluctuating particulars or Fientia.
Of other Entiathere is generation or destruction, but of Accidents there is none (b.
Contraries as the fundamental principles) Entia could not be eternal.
But Entia are eternal; therefore these theories must be in part amended: we have shown how (b.
A man may even doubt whether they are Entia or Non-Entia, since none of them is either per se or separable.
Here we have the first appearance of the argument that William of Ockham, the Nominalist, put in the foreground of his case against Realism: "Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.
The difference between entia realia & entia rationis may be made as properly now as ever.
M29) [(69)According to my doctrine all are not entia rationis.
According to my doctrine all things are entia rationis, i.
Entia realia et entia rationis, a foolish distinction of the Schoolemen.
But if they are to possess the least objective validity, and to represent anything but mere creations of thought (entia rationis ratiocinantis), a deduction of them must be possible.
That the same unity exists in nature is presupposed by philosophers in the well-known scholastic maxim, which forbids us unnecessarily to augment the number of entities or principles (entia praeter necessitatem non esse multiplicanda).
It follows, then, that some entia realissima are absolutely necessary beings.
Zeno's Dialectic--he refuted the opponents of Parmenides, by showing that their assumptions led to contradictions and absurdities 93 Consequences of their assumption of Entia Plura Discontinua.
Side-note: Consequences of their assumption of Entia Plura Discontinua.
As to the second point, let us grant that Ens or Entia exist; they would nevertheless (argued Gorgias) be incogitable and unknowable.
The reasoning of Zeno, as far as we know it, is nearly all directed against the hypothesis of Entia plura discontinua.
This gives us the proposition that some Entia realissima are at the same time absolutely necessary Beings.
This is the scholastic maxim: entia praeter necessitatem non esse multiplicanda.
Side-note: Motion and rest are both of them Entia or realities.
The Friends of Forms or Idealists, who recognise such Forms as the only real Entia ib.
Theorists about Ens cannot solve them 201 Theories of those who do not recognise a definite number of Entia or elements.
In regard to the Entia Rationis, divergence between one theorist and another is quite as remarkable as the divergence between one percipient and another in the most disputable region of Entia Perceptionis.
Those (the Materialists) who recognised bodies and nothing else, as the real Entia or Existences.
You cannot say (argues Plato against the advocates of duality) that two elements (Hot and Cold) are both of them Entia or Existent, because by so doing you call them one.
Since absolute Ens or Entia are Many (said the opponents of Parmenides), they will be both like and unlike: and thus we can explain the phenomena of the sensible world.
The Entia Rationis exist relatively to Ratio, as the Entia Perceptionis exist relatively to Sense.
Such is the examination which the Eleate bestows on the theories of theories of those philosophers who held one, two, or a definite number of self-existent Entia or elements.
They must concede that Change, and the Changeable, are to be reckoned as Entia or Realities: for if these be not so reckoned, and if all Entia are unchangeable, no Ens can be an object of knowledge to any mind.
A knowledge that proceeds from part to part must always be imperfect; it must remain external to its object, it must deal in abstractions or mere entia rationis, which it may easily be led to mistake for realities.
All division, distinction and relation are butentia rationis.
Hence they conclude that a real distinction must be denied: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.
Therefore the difficulty remains that the latter efficiency is superfluous and useless: and entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.
They are positively intelligible as capable of actual existence, and therefore as distinct from logical entities or entia rationis which are not capable of such existence.
Such entities, therefore, differ from entia rationis; they, too, are real beings.
And their objects, the modes and mutual relations of our primae intentiones or direct concepts, are called entia rationis--logical entities.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "entia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
