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  2. The Realms of Being - Wikipedia

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    The Realm of Truth was thought of well after Santayana had thought of his other three realms; he envisions it as a sort of subdivision of the Realm of Essence. Truth is that part of the Realm of Essences instantiated by matter; indeed, he says: Truth is the furrow which matter must plow upon the face of essence.

  3. Transcendentals - Wikipedia

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    The transcendentals, according to Christian doctrine, can be described as the ultimate desires of man. Man ultimately strives for perfection, which takes form through the desire for perfect attainment of the transcendentals. The Catholic Church teaches that God is Truth, Goodness, and Beauty, as indicated in the Catechism of the Catholic Church ...

  4. Quiddity - Wikipedia

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    The quiddity of a tree is the collection of characteristics which make it a tree. This is sometimes referred to as "treeness". This idea fell into disuse with the rise of empiricism, precisely because the essence of things, that which makes them what they are, does not correspond to any observables in the world around us.

  5. Essence - Wikipedia

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    Essence (Latin: essentia) has various meanings and uses for different thinkers and in different contexts. It is used in philosophy and theology as a designation for the property or set of properties or attributes that make an entity the entity it is or, expressed negatively, without which it would lose its identity .

  6. Ontological argument - Wikipedia

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    In other arguments, the truth is attained from an external source, such as from the possible to the necessary, from the originated to the eternal origin, or from motion to the unmoved mover. In the argument of the righteous, there is no middle term other than the truth. [31] His version of the ontological argument can be summarized as follows: [30]

  7. Satya - Wikipedia

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    Satya (Sanskrit: सत्य; IAST: Satya) is a Sanskrit word translated as truth or essence. [3] It also refers to a virtue in Indian religions, referring to being truthful in one's thoughts, speech and action. [4] In Yoga, satya is one of five yamas, the virtuous restraint from falsehood and distortion of reality in one's expressions and ...

  8. Truth - Wikipedia

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    Truth or verity is the property of being in accord with fact or reality. [1] In everyday language, it is typically ascribed to things that aim to represent reality or otherwise correspond to it, such as beliefs, propositions, and declarative sentences. [2] Truth is usually held to be the opposite of false statement.

  9. Essentialism - Wikipedia

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    Her essence underlies all the apparent variations differentiating women from each other. Essentialism thus refers to the existence of fixed characteristic, given attributes, and ahistorical functions that limit the possibilities of change and thus of social reorganization."