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
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Argument #a465f033 1 0 2
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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 2and
There are found in the intelligences both potency and act but not matter and form 1 0 2Then it must be true that...
Existence received from God allows substances to subsist in the nature of things 1 0 2Argument #fedd780c 1 0 2
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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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