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When we speak of God's simplicity we speak of the fact that God is not composed of parts, or compounded of elements.
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In God there is no passive potentiality at all; God is pure actuality.
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In God there is no composition of matter and form.
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God is his own existence
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God is composed of substance and accidentals.
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An apple is a substance.
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God is not a part or element of anything else.
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God's absolute simplicity in being and essence conflicts with the subsistence of the simple divine essence in the three distinct Persons of the Blessed Trinity.
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When something is not composed of parts, we call that thing:
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simple
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compound
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broken
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round
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A body is subject to:
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motion and change
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growth and death
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size and shape
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range and speed
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If God is the unmoved First-Mover, then he is not subject to:
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God is pure [blank_start]actuality[blank_end].
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A body is always in the state of potentiality, that is:
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It is capable of being acted on by causes.
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It is never doing anything.
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It can be anything it wants to be.
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It is compounded of elements.
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The element common to all bodies and the element by which a body is bodily is:
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primal matter
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substance
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form
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composition
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All bodies are composed of:
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primal matter
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substantial form
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compounded elements
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billions of cells
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The substantial determinant in each body which makes it an existing body of its essential kind is called:
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substantial form
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primal matter
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first cause
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material composition
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A body [blank_start]has[blank_end] its nature or working essence. God does not [blank_start]have[blank_end] anything.
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A body is always composed of an essence or nature concreted in:
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an individual subject
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a potentiality
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its own essence
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its own existence
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God is his own nature.
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Why does God not -have- anything?
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If he did he would be in potentiality towards having it and would receive it from some prior being
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if he did then nothing else could have anything
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if he did then he would be composed of primal matter
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if he did he would be a pure actuality with no compounding of a nature with the individual subject which has that nature
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There is no being prior to the [blank_start]First[blank_end] [blank_start]Being[blank_end].
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Creatures, bodily or spiritual, are composed of [blank_start]essence[blank_end] and [blank_start]existence[blank_end].
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[blank_start]Essence[blank_end] receives existence.
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[blank_start]Existence[blank_end] is received by essence to make an existing creature.
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Since God is the First Being, there is nothing [blank_start]prior[blank_end] to him from which his essence could receive existence.
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God does not receive anything of his being.
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It is God's essence to exist.
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In God, [blank_start]essence[blank_end] and [blank_start]existence[blank_end] are absolutely one and the same.
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God is a compound of essence and existence.
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The general essential class of things to which a creature belongs is its:
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genus
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phylum
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specific difference
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existence
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We understand an organism as belonging to the general class of [blank_start]body[blank_end], and as marked off from body-as-such by the fact that it has [blank_start]life[blank_end].
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We understand and define a creature by:
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In God there is no composition or compounding of genus and difference.
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The special difference by which a creature is essentially distinguished from other members of its class is:
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its specific difference
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its genus
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its composition
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it's material form
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A [blank_start]substance[blank_end] is a reality that is naturally suited to exist as itself, and not as the mark or determinant of some other thing.
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An [blank_start]accidental[blank_end] is a reality that is suited to exist as of something other than itself.
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The fact that an apple is red is part of that apple's substance.
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The color of an apple is [blank_start]accidental[blank_end] to the substance of the apple.
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A creatural substance is said to be composed of [blank_start]substance[blank_end] and inhering [blank_start]accidentals[blank_end].
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A creatural substance has [blank_start]accidentals[blank_end]. In God there are no [blank_start]accidentals[blank_end] at all.
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All that God has, God is.
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God is not composed of parts of elements of any kind. God is absolutely [blank_start]simple[blank_end].
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What is an element or part of a compound cannot act [blank_start]primarily[blank_end] and [blank_start]essentially[blank_end]; only the completed compound can act so.
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One can think of God as a "world soul" or as primal matter.