The intelligences are form and existence and have existence from the first being, which is existence alone, and this is the first cause, which is God
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Argument #bc856a31 1 0 2
If it is true that...
Everything the existence of which is other than its own nature has existence from another 1 0 2and
There is something that is the cause of existing in all things in that this thing is existence only 1 0 2Then it must be true that...
The intelligences are form and existence and have existence from the first being, which is existence alone, and this is the first cause, which is God 1 0 2Opposing Arguments
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Argument #fedd780c 1 0 2
If it is true that...
The intelligences are form and existence and have existence from the first being, which is existence alone, and this is the first cause, which is God 1 0 2and
A quiddity or form that is an intelligence is in potency with respect to the existence that it receives from God, and this received existence is received as its act 1 0 2Then it must be true that...
There are found in the intelligences both potency and act but not matter and form 1 0 2Mentions
St Thomas Aquinas/On Being and Essence
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God knows all that is merely possible by the knowledge of simple intelligence (Scientia Simplicis Intelligentiae) 1 0 2There 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 2The universality of the form does not arise from the existence the form has in the intellect but rather from its relation to things as a likeness of such things 1 0 2In the intelligences, there is existence beyond the form 1 0 2An intelligence is form and existence 1 0 2There is something that is the cause of existing in all things in that this thing is existence only 1 0 2A quiddity or form that is an intelligence is in potency with respect to the existence that it receives from God, and this received existence is received as its act 1 0 2There are found in the intelligences both potency and act but not matter and form 1 0 2A multitude of intelligences can exist if there is potency in them 1 0 2