Potency and act exist in intelligences
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If it is true that...
Substances are composed of what is and that by which it is 1 0 2and
Potency and act exist in intelligences 1 0 2Then it must be true that...
A multitude of intelligences can exist if there is potency in them 1 0 2Mentions
St Thomas Aquinas/On Being and Essence
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