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In the ninth lesson commenting on the fifth book of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, St. Thomas distinguishes the different ways in which being is spoken of, that is to say, the different modes of being. First, accidental being (ens per accidens) is distinguished from essential being or being in its own right (ens per se). The latter kind of being is then distinguished according to three modes: (1) external, real being, (2) mental being, and (3) actual and potential being:
Distinguit [Philosophus] modum entis per se: et circa hoc tria facit. Primo distinguit ens quod est extra animam per decem praedicamenta, quod est ens perfectum. Secundo ponit alium modum entis, secundum quod est tantum in mente. ... Tertio dividit ens per potentiam et actum.1
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Schmidt, R.W. (1966). Rationate Being. In: The Domain of Logic According to Saint Thomas Aquinas. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0939-8_4
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