Everything that pertains to a thing either is caused by the principles of its own nature or comes from some extrinsic principle
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If it is true that...
Everything that pertains to a thing either is caused by the principles of its own nature or comes from some extrinsic principle 1 0 2and
Everything the existence of which is other than its own nature has existence from another 1 0 2Then it must be true that...
There is something that is the cause of existing in all things in that this thing is existence only 1 0 2Mentions
St Thomas Aquinas/On Being and Essence
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