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F. Contrariety
1. Contrariety is never infinite.
2. Every contrary act involves privation.
3. Contrariety cannot occur without accidents.
4. Any absence of concordance is contrariety.
5. All contrariety is either extrinsic or intrinsic.
6. Since all sentient beings have similarities, no contrariety can
be found among them without some concordance.
7. Between sense and intellect, concordance naturally occurs
before contrariety.
8. The senses defy intellect with minor power and intellect
defies the senses with major power.
9. Any sense contradicting the intellect contradicts itself
and not vice versa.
10. Truth always contradicts falsehood more strongly than
vice versa.
11. No intellect can contradict another more than itself.
12. A human soul can contradict God more strongly than it
can contradict anyone else. |
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