TY - BOOK AU - Doyle,John P. AU - Salas,Victor M. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - On the borders of being and knowing: some late scholastic thoughts on supertranscendental being T2 - Ancient and medieval philosophy AV - BD331 .D68 2012eb PY - 2012/// CY - Leuven, Belgium PB - Leuven University Press KW - Ontology KW - Knowledge, Theory of KW - Transcendentalism KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries N2 - Sylvester Mauro, S.J. (1619-1687) noted that human intellects can grasp what is, what is not, what can be, and what cannot be. The first principle, 'it is not possible that the same thing simultaneously be and not be, ' involves them all. The present volume begins with Greeks distinguishing 'being' from 'something' and proceeds to the late Scholastic doctrine of 'supertranscendental being', which embraces both. On the way is Aristotle's distinction between 'being as being' and 'being as true' and his extension of the latter to include impossible objects UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10655453 ER -