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The Problem of Evil, Dystopia, and Dostoevsky's ‘The Brothers Karamazov' | Prof. Stephen Meredith

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What Is the Meaning of the Word Is?

The word is a grammatical copulative. It links a thing and a quality, or two things. Thomas Aquinas use the term ends per se, being per se. We can say as a generalization that we do not know, we cannot know, essences. What we know comes from sensory data, and it's all what he called accidents.

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