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Lull's Book of
Propositions
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Part 1
Igneity B.
Question 1: Can the matter of fire be ignified, and can its form ignite?
Question 2: Can the matter of fire be passive under the form of fire without any intermediary?
Solution: [Igneity, aereity, terreity.][Concordance, beginning, middle.]
Aereity C.
Question 1: Can the matter of fire be heated more than the matter of air?
Question 2: Does air have actively moistening form, and passive matter that can be moistened?
Solution: [Aereity, igneity, being.][Difference, concordance, majority.]
Aqueity D.
Question 1: Does the form of water diversify, harmonize and set opposition its matter?
Question 2: Can simple, unmixed matter of water be diversified, harmonized and polarized?
Solution: [Aqueity, simplicity, composition.][Difference, concordance, contrariety.]
Terreity E.
Question 1: Is earth cold per se or by accident?
Question 2: Can the matter of earth be ignited more than the matter of air?
Solution: [Terreity, aqueity, composition.][Beginning, middle, end.]
Being F.
Question 1: Is nature's being composed of substance and accidents?
Question 2: Is essence the source of being, and are the powers of being the source of accidents?
Solution: [Being, substance, accident.][Beginning, end, majority.]
Form G.
Question 1: Is substance produced from majority of form and matter, and accident from minority of substance?
Question 2: Within the rule and intention of nature, can there be any particular forms with no universal
form?
Solution: [Form, substance, accident.][Concordance, end, majority.]
Matter H.
Question 1: In the matter of fire, can one and the same essence be illuminated, heated and ignited?
Question 2: Does the form of fire incessantly heat and illuminate all of the matter of fire?
Solution: [Matter, form, simplicity.][Operation, beginning, end.]
Simplicity I.
Question 1: Does the simplicity of nature have a simplifying act?
Question 2: Does the form of fire actively simplify, whereas its passive matter is simplified?
Solution: [Simplicity, igneity, virtue.][Operation, concordance, majority.]
Composition K.
Question 1: Is fire a compounded power, since its form actively ignifies and its matter is passively
ignified?
Question 2: Is nature composed of universals and particulars?
Solution: [Composition, being, nature.][Concordance, beginning, end.]
Substance L.
Question 1: Do substances produce one another, or are they all produced from one individual substance?
Question 2: Is substance more indivisible in its essential parts than in its integral parts?
Solution: [Substance, virtue, operation.][Difference, concordance, majority.]
Accident M.
Question 1: Are accidents an essential, or virtual part of substance?
Question 2: Is accident a universal power above many particular accidents?
Solution: [Accident, substance, virtue.][Beginning, middle, end.]
Virtue N.
Question 1: Can the virtue of substance and the virtue of matter actively individuate and be passively
individuated?
Question 2: In substance, are the virtue of form and the virtue of matter one homogeneous essence?
Solution: [Virtue, substance, operation.][Difference, beginning, end.]
Operation O.
Question 1: Does the operation of universals cause individuation in particulars?
Question 2: Does the operation of nature proceed from the essences of substances and accidents?
Solution: [Operation, virtue, motion.][Beginning, end, majority.]
Interiority P.
Question 1: Why does nature's interiority reside in form, and its exteriority in matter?
Question 2: Is man outside, or inside nature?
Solution: [Interiority, form, exteriority.][Operation, beginning, end.]
Exteriority Q.
Question 1: Is God outside the world?
Question 2: Is locus outside of what is located?
Solution: [Exteriority, interiority, motion.][God, operation, end.]
Motion R.
Question 1: Does natural motion arise from substance or from accidents?
Question 2: Is motive power composed of the virtue of substance, or of accidents?
Solution: [Motion, substance, virtue.][Operation, beginning, end.]
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