Concepts to survive 1

Reality is what:

• Is material

• I must be able to know

• Has Being

• Has to exist

An entity is not:

• All that has been, is and can become

• Something that no one has thought

• A compound of being and essence

• Something tha is

It is an accidental entity

• The Peje (President of Mexico)

• Justice

• A window

• A cat

It is a substantial entity

• Love

• The color white

• An idea

• A chair

It is the essence as far as it can act and change:

• Essence

• Nature

• Substance

• Potency

It has the function of unifying the accidents:

• Being

• The essence

• The substance

• The matter

It is the principle of causality:

• What is, is and what is not, is not.

• To say that what is isn't.

• A thing cannot be in one way and its opposite at the same time.

• Every effect has a sufficient cause that explains it.

It can be the final cause of a statue

• The sculptor

• The marble

• To create beauty

• An explosion

It is the efficient cause of the statue

• The sculptor

• The marble

• The silhouette of the statue

• A sculpture contest

The seed of a tree is:

• The act of the tree.

• The potency to be everything.

• The tree in potency.

• The tree in act.