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Part II — Chapter 13: The Controversy Over Light
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206Major primi Syllogismi probatur, quia Accidens extra Subjectum non subsistit. Minor secundi, quia scil. hæc formalis ratio accidentium, quod non per se subsistant, quod utrumque S. T. facilè concedet, quia probabilibus & invictis Philosophiæ terminis & principiis firmatum.
Candida Phoenix Philosophica: Part II — Chapter 13: The Controversy Over Light
206The major premise of the first syllogism is proved because an accident does not subsist outside its subject. The minor premise of the second is proved because this is the defining character of accidents: they do not subsist of themselves. You will readily grant both points, since they rest upon accepted and unassailable terms and principles of philosophy.
Socrates
Reading Candida Phoenix Philosophica · Part II — Chapter 13: The Controversy Over Light · II.206.2 · Source p. 206
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An anonymous Hermetic treatise of 1680, presented in its original German and Latin with a new English translation, 279 explanatory notes, the historical phoenix frontispiece, an introduction, reading guide, outline, glossary, bibliography, and original registers.
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Anonymous, Candida Phoenix philosophica. Frankfurt am Main: Christian Hermsdorff, 1680. The chosen witness is the Wellcome Library copy digitized as b32993456; German and Latin, with French, Greek, and Hebrew passages retained.
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