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Proemium 1

Chapter 1. Some Modern Thomists on the Order of Learning the Sciences:

Immaterial Being as Self-Evident

i. Dewan: Metaphysics Begins with Our First Idea 7

ii. Owens: Metaphysics Begins with the Distinction Between Essence and Esse

13

iii. Wippel: Metaphysics Begins with the Judgment that Being is Different from

Material Being 17

Chapter 2. From the Senses into the Mind: The Natural and First Road in Our Knowledge

Metaphysics Distinguishes the Order in Our Knowledge 23

i. Metaphysics 1.1: Exterior Sensation 24

The reason for multiple senses and the order among sense objects

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ii. Interior Sensation: Memory and Experience 29

Chapter 3. Knowledge within the Mind From First Ideas to the Sciences 33
i. Our First Ideas 34

We First Understand What Is Sensible 36

ii. The Order in Naming Reveals the Order in Our Understanding 43

iii. The Natural Object of the Mind 46

B. The Division of the Sciences 48

C. The Order of Learning the Sciences 52

Chapter 4. Immaterial Being Grasped by Demonstration 62

Chapter 5. Conclusion 75

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