Knowledge absolutely, is a word without meaning: all knowledge is relative, and has a definite object or cognitum: there can be no scientia scientiarum.
Scientia media is a supposed intermediate knowledge between these two, namely (3) foreknowledge of undecreed actuals.
The whole difference, then, is quantitative, and as such, indifferent to philosophy, scientia qualitatum.
Herder (1769) was more important than these, and he placed Baumgarten upon a pedestal, though criticizing his pretension of creating an ars pulchre cogitandi instead of a simple scientia de pulchro et pulchris philosophice cogitans.
Whether the certainty of its operation results from the physical nature of this particular grace, or from God’s infallible foreknowledge (scientia media), is a question in dispute between Thomists and Molinists.
The mystery surrounding both the unequal distribution of efficacious grace and the scientia media still remains.
This infallible foreknowledge is based not alone on the scientia media, but also on the infirmity of human nature.
The efficacia infallibilitatis springs from God’s certain foreknowledge (scientia media), which cannot be deceived.
Finally, there is something illogical and unsatisfactory in admitting on equal terms, as it were, two such incompatible notions as the Thomistic cognitio Dei in decretis praedeterminantibus and the Molinistic scientia media.
With old and learned Schole men, it is called Scientia de pleno & vacuo.
And Alcuin proceeded to furnish him with a compend of the scientia bene dicendi, which is Rhetoric.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scientia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
