suppositum
- noun
- /səˈpɒzɪtəm/
- Archaic
:
suplente
- In theology, the concept of a suppositum is crucial for discussing the relationship between divine nature and human nature.
Examples
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It does not matter whether the thing has a complete being like a suppositum or whether something exists as an essential part in a suppositum.
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It does not matter whether the thing has a complete being like a suppositum or whether something exists as an essential part in a suppositum.
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Since a suppositum is understood as an individual that subsists in the genus of substance, it follows that strictly speaking only a human person can qualify as the agent of his thinking.
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For the immediate principle is the intellective power of the soul, while the agent should be a suppositum possessing a complete being, either the composite of the soul and body in this life, or the separate soul after death but before resurrection, or the composite of the soul and the resurrected body after resurrection.
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Philosophers often debate the nature of a suppositum to understand individual existence and substance.
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The discussion centered around how a suppositum can be defined as an individual entity within the broader context of metaphysics.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Suppositum comes from Latin suppositus, from sub- 'under' and ponere 'to put', and old philosophers used it to mean the individual 'thing placed' under a name or description. That's why a suppositum can refer to a single, individual entity or subject in philosophical talk.
