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CONTENTS 

PAGE 

PREFACE ix 

I Biographical Account of St. Thomas Aquinas . . xiii 

II Thomistic Anthropology and Epistemology 

1. Basic Features of Doctrine xvii 

2. The Order of Abstraction and the Order of 

Signification xxiv 

Concerning Being and Essence 
Introduction 3 

CHAPTER 

I What the Names Being and Essence Commonly Sig- 
nify 4 

II What Essence Is in Composite Substances ... 7 

III How Essence Is Disposed towards Genus and Differ- 

ence 16 

IV By What Mode Essence Exists in Separate Sub- 

stances 21 

V How Diverse Essences Exist in Diverse Things . . 28 

VI How Essence, Genus and Difference Exist in Acci- 
dents 33 

BIBLIOGRAPHY 39 

GLOSSARY 43 

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