ADJUNCT, Adjunctum, in philosophy, something added to a being from without. See ADJUNCTION.
Or, an adjunct is an additament or accession to a thing, not essentially belonging to it, but only accidental thereto.See ACCIDENT.
There are two kinds of adjuncts; the one, a substance (whether spirit or body) accidentally superadded to another, as its subject—Such is water in a sponge, or vessel, and the soul in the body. See SUBSTANCE.
Or, an adjunct is an additament or accession to a thing, not essentially belonging to it, but only accidental thereto.See ACCIDENT.
There are two kinds of adjuncts; the one, a substance (whether spirit or body) accidentally superadded to another, as its subject—Such is water in a sponge, or vessel, and the soul in the body. See SUBSTANCE.
ACCIDENT, Accidens, in Philosophy, something additional, or superadded, to Substance; or not essentially belonging thereto, but capable, indifferently, either of being or not being in it, without the Destruction thereof. See SUBSTANCE.
Some will have the Word compounded of ad aliud cadens, q. d. falling or belonging to another; others suppose it formed ab accidendo, happening accidentally.
The Schoolmen distinguish three Kinds of Accidents;Verbal, Predicable, and Predicamental.
Some will have the Word compounded of ad aliud cadens, q. d. falling or belonging to another; others suppose it formed ab accidendo, happening accidentally.
The Schoolmen distinguish three Kinds of Accidents;Verbal, Predicable, and Predicamental.
Absolute, e. g. sometimes imports a Thing which does not include the Idea of Relation to another ; in which Sense it Hands oppos'd to Relative.
Thus, Man is an absolute Term ; and, on the contrary, Creature and Father are Relatives, the one referring to Creator, the other to Children. See RELATIVE.
In the like Sense, the Schoolmen hold Absolute to imply a Thing's not being
In this Sense too, the Terms of a Proposition are said to be taken absolutely ; that is, without Relation to each other.
An ABSTRACT Idea, is some simple Idea, detach'd and separated from any particular Subject, or Complex Idea ; for the sake of viewing and considering it more distinctly, as it is in itself, its own Nature, &c. See IDEA, SIMPLE, COMPLEX, &c.
Thus, Magnitude and Humanity are Abstracts when consider'd in themselves, and without being attached to any particular Body, or Person ; tho they cannot have any real Subsistence without such Subjects, nor the Subjects without them.
Thus, also, Whiteness is an Abstract, or abstract Term ; inasmuch as it does not denote any one white Object, but that Colour or Idea in the general, wherever sound. See GENERAL.
From the Knowledge of Abstracts we arrive at that of Concretes, which is the opposite Term ; Concrete denoting a General or Abstract Idea's being attach'd to same particular Subject, or consider'd as combin'd with some other Ideas ; as, great House, white Wall. See CONCRETE.
ADJOINING, Adjunction, in philosophy, etc. See ADJUNCT and ADJUNCTION. Adjoining is particularly used for the associating of a person to another, or appointing him a colleague, or adjunct.See ADJUNCT, etc.