The Stromata, or Miscellanies, Book VIII

Book VIII

• The Stromata, or Miscellanies VIII.1 — The Object of Philosophical and Theological Inquiry—The Discovery of Truth. But the most ancient of the philosophers were not carried away to disputing and doubting, much less are we, who are attached to the really…vatican.va
• The Stromata, or Miscellanies VIII.2 — The Necessity of Perspicuous Definition. What better or clearer method, for the commencement of instruction of this nature, can there be than discussion of the term advanced, so distinctly, that all who use the same…vatican.va
• The Stromata, or Miscellanies VIII.3 — Demonstration Defined. Similarly, also, all men will admit that demonstration is discourse, agreeable to reason, producing belief in points disputed, from points admitted. Now, not only demonstration and belief and…vatican.va
• The Stromata, or Miscellanies VIII.4 — To Prevent Ambiguity, We Must Begin with Clear Definition. For every question is solved from pre-existing knowledge. And the knowledge pre-existing of each object of investigation is sometimes merely of the essence,…vatican.va
• The Stromata, or Miscellanies VIII.5 — Application of Demonstration to Sceptical Suspense of Judgment. Now the same treatment which applies to demonstration applies also to the following question. Some, for instance, say that there cannot be several…vatican.va
• The Stromata, or Miscellanies VIII.6 — Definitions, Genera, and Species. The introductions and sources of questions are about these points and in them. But before definitions, and demonstrations, and divisions, it must be propounded in what ways the…vatican.va
• The Stromata, or Miscellanies VIII.7 — On the Causes of Doubt or Assent. The causes productive of scepticism are two things principally. One is the changefulness and instability of the human mind, whose nature it is to generate dissent, either that of one…vatican.va
• The Stromata, or Miscellanies VIII.8 — The Method of Classifying Things and Names. In language there are three things:—Names, which are primarily the symbols of conceptions, and by consequence also of subjects. Second, there are Conceptions, which are the…vatican.va
• The Stromata, or Miscellanies VIII.9 — On the Different Kinds of Cause. Of Causes, some are Procatarctic and some Synectic, some Co-operating, some Causes sine quâ non. Those that afford the occasion of the origin of anything first, are Procatarctic; as…vatican.va