I must not give the soul or mind the scholastique name “pure act,” but rather pure spirit, or active being.
S.
I must not say the Will or Understanding are all one, but that they are both abstract ideas, i.e. none at all—they not being even ratione different from the Spirit, quâ faculties, or active.
S.
Dangerous to make idea & thing terms convertible[194]. That were the way to prove spirits are nothing.
Mo.
Qu. whether veritas stands not for an abstract idea?
M.
'Tis plain the moderns must by their own principles own there are no bodies, i.e. no sort of bodies without the mind, i.e. unperceived.