ADJUNCT, Adjunctum, in philosophy, something added to a being from without. See ADJUNCTION.
Or, an adjunct is an additament or accession to a thing, not essentially belonging to it, but only accidental thereto.See ACCIDENT.
There are two kinds of adjuncts; the one, a substance (whether spirit or body) accidentally superadded to another, as its subject—Such is water in a sponge, or vessel, and the soul in the body. See SUBSTANCE.
Or, an adjunct is an additament or accession to a thing, not essentially belonging to it, but only accidental thereto.See ACCIDENT.
There are two kinds of adjuncts; the one, a substance (whether spirit or body) accidentally superadded to another, as its subject—Such is water in a sponge, or vessel, and the soul in the body. See SUBSTANCE.
ATTRIBUTE, ATTRIBUTUM, in Philosophy, a Property which agrees to some Person, or Thing; or a Quality, which determines something to be after a certain Manner. See PROPERTY and QUALITY.
Thus, Understanding is an Attribute of Mind; Figure, an Attribute of Body, etc. Spinoza makes the Soul and the Body to be of the same Substance; with this only Difference, that the Soul is to be conceived under the Attribute of Thought, and the Body under that of Extension. See SUBSTANCE, SPINOSISM, etc.
Of the several Attributes belonging to any Substance, that which presents itself first, and which the Mind conceives as the Foundation of all the rest, is called its essential Attribute. See ESSENCE and ESSENTIAL.
Thus, Extension is by some; and Solidity by others, made the essential Attribute of Body or Matter. See BODY, MATTER, EXTENSION, SOLIDITY, etc. The other Attributes are called accidental ones. See ACCIDENT. Mr. Lock endeavours to prove, that Thinking, which the Cartesians make the essential Attribute of the Mind, is only an accidental one. See THINKING, MIND, SOUL, etc.
Thus, Understanding is an Attribute of Mind; Figure, an Attribute of Body, etc. Spinoza makes the Soul and the Body to be of the same Substance; with this only Difference, that the Soul is to be conceived under the Attribute of Thought, and the Body under that of Extension. See SUBSTANCE, SPINOSISM, etc.
Of the several Attributes belonging to any Substance, that which presents itself first, and which the Mind conceives as the Foundation of all the rest, is called its essential Attribute. See ESSENCE and ESSENTIAL.
Thus, Extension is by some; and Solidity by others, made the essential Attribute of Body or Matter. See BODY, MATTER, EXTENSION, SOLIDITY, etc. The other Attributes are called accidental ones. See ACCIDENT. Mr. Lock endeavours to prove, that Thinking, which the Cartesians make the essential Attribute of the Mind, is only an accidental one. See THINKING, MIND, SOUL, etc.
ACATALEPSIA, Acatalepsy, in Philosophy, Incomprehensibleness; or the Impossibility of comprehending or conceiving a thing. See COMPREHENSION.
The Pyrrhonians and Sceptics, and even the Ancient Academy, asserted an absolute Acatalepsia: All human Science or Knowledge, according to them, went no further than to Appearances and Verisimilitude.
See PYRRHONIAN, SCEPTIC, and ACADEMY.
The Pyrrhonians and Sceptics, and even the Ancient Academy, asserted an absolute Acatalepsia: All human Science or Knowledge, according to them, went no further than to Appearances and Verisimilitude.
See PYRRHONIAN, SCEPTIC, and ACADEMY.
Absolute, e. g. sometimes imports a Thing which does not include the Idea of Relation to another ; in which Sense it Hands oppos'd to Relative.
Thus, Man is an absolute Term ; and, on the contrary, Creature and Father are Relatives, the one referring to Creator, the other to Children. See RELATIVE.
In the like Sense, the Schoolmen hold Absolute to imply a Thing's not being
In this Sense too, the Terms of a Proposition are said to be taken absolutely ; that is, without Relation to each other.