Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ONTOLOGY Ontology is the science of the essential determinatives of the Absolute Potentia which, as such, eternally constitute, define and affirm entity (esse ad extra). Potentia, per se, is the concrete creative might of the Absolute and is consequently the absolute principle and the absolute proto-type of entity. The determinatives of the Absolute Potentia, which constitute the Being, are: 1. Submanence, (Subsistentia supernaturalis vel vis absolute determinans). 2. Immanence, (Substantia spiritualis vel vis absolute de- terminata ut se determinat). 3. Extramanence, (Substantia naturalis vel vis absolute de- terminata atque instrumentalis). chapter{Section 4SUBMANENCE Submanence, the principal determinative of the Absolute Potentia, by virtue of its eternal dignity, truth and love, is the proto-typical subsistence of entity, thus constituting, denning and affirming in entity the absolute, transcendent and eternal majesty of GOD. Philosophy has never essentially risen above the theories of cognition of Plato and Aristotle. On account of their more or less subjectivistic tendencies, which were adopted as the fundament of cognition by the succeeding schools, philosophy became fixed either in different methods of an inconcrete idealism or of an abstract sensualism. These theories, owing to their ontological insufficiency, were closely followed by scepticism, which, fostered by the low elevation of submanence in humanity, manifests a negative power of no little importance. Since philosophy could positively and formally define neither the principle nor the laws of worth-essence (submanence), the establishment of a logical basis for the supreme tendency of the human spirit, which is religion, has hitherto been impossible. Hence with the rise of sc...