Being has two senses: that which is divided into the ten categories and that which signifies the truth of propositions
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St Thomas Aquinas/On Being and Essence
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There is a being than which nothing greater can be conceived, and it exists both in the understanding and in reality 1 0 2Being and essence are the things first conceived of by the intellect 1 0 2Anything can be called a being about which an affirmative proposition can be formed, even if the thing posits nothing in reality 1 0 2The term essence is taken from being in the first sense 1 0 2Essence signifies something common to all natures through which various beings are placed in various genera and species 1 0 2Essence is also called form, for the certitude of every thing is signified through its form 1 0 2Being is absolutely and primarily said of substances, and only secondarily and in a certain sense said of accidents 1 0 2The species, as predicated of the individual, signify everything that is in the individual essentially, although it signifies this indistinctly 1 0 2The nature or essence can be considered in two ways: absolutely and according to its existence in this thing or in that 1 0 2In every other thing, the thing's existence is one thing, and its essence or quiddity or nature or form is another 1 0 2