Part Three

Elements in the Composition of Physical Substances

1. If a Physical Substance Is Composed Out of Elements, Must It Also Be

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Composed Out of Prime Matter and Substantial Form?

2. If A Physical Substance Is Composed Out of Elements As Well As Out

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of Prime Matter and Substantial Form, Are the Elements Ingredients of Its

Essence?

3. Is an Element in Any Way an Agent Cause, in Addition to Being a Special

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Sort of Material Cause?

4. Is a Mixed Body, i.e., a Physical Thing Made Out of Certain Elements

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Combined in a Certain Ratio, the Same as a Natural Organed Body, i.e., the

Appropriate Subject of Soul?

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5. Elements in the Definition of a Mixed Body (The Elements As

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Definientia)

6. Ingredients in the Definiton of an Element (The Elements As

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Definienda)

7. The Elements and Creation

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8. Opus Creationis, Opus Distinctionis, Et Opus Ornatus

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9. The Elements and the Heavenly Bodies

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The Nature of the Heavens and of the Heavenly Bodies

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The Causality of the Heavens and of the Heavenly Bodies

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10. The Seventh Day and Beyond, Like the First Day and Beyond:

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Unfolding, Developing, Evolving Out of the Matter of the Elements, and By

Their Agent Causality

11. The Elements and the Eduction of Substantial Forms from the Potency of

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Matter