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Noted.

I second this.

Can do!

Ah, but if you go far enough down, you'll find those cats become turtles.

Prime matter is notoriously difficult. Have you read Real Essentialism? Oderberg also has a helpful article titled (something like) “Is Prime Matter Energy?” I would check that out.

@@PhilosophyforthePeople not the OP but tbh I think a lot of scholastic thought clicked for me when I realized how well act and potency lined up to kenetic and potential energy. I’ll have to read some Oderberg

Thanks @@PhilosophyforthePeople , I will put those on my reading list 👍 I do seem to remember Feser mentioning something about this article from Oderberg.

You wouldn’t be the first to speculate on that general direction. See “Is Prime Matter Energy” by David Oderberg.

And yes, somewhat akin. Feser makes a similar comparison in his book.

@@PhilosophyforthePeople wow, thanks very much, will definetely check it out.

@@PhilosophyforthePeople since we are on it, do you have any proof of "Knowledge" or "Knower" being names of God? I know Aquinas talks about this in the Prima Pars, but tbh I don't find his argument convincing. Here is the problem that I have. It is easy for me to accept that, let's say, the supreme Good is the same as pure esse (only differing in ratio), because "goodness" doesn't need to have a restrictive specific nature different from existence. But when we speak of "Knowing" or "Intellect" or "Pure Consciousness", it seems like they do have a specitic nature differing from existence. Isn't consciousness really some sort of essence ? Some type of being rather then Being itself ? I am specifically saying "Pure Consciousness" because if God is simple his act of understanding needs to be the same as the "thing" that understands (which is Consciousness), so he should be an act of Subjectivity that is perfectly transparent to itself without needing "objectification", knowing some THING as an object in your Consciousness as something distinct from yourself. Basically what I am saying is that God's knowledge should be beyond subject-object duality if we are going to keep simplicity. Having said all this, it seems to me that such a simple "Pure Consciousness" is still a type of being rather then Being itself.

@@Sol_Invictus77 happy reading!

Both,

Always appreciated.