Arnold Senguerdius: On General and Special Metaphysics

Arnold Senguerdius was professor of metaphysics and physics at Utrecht. He is, in my estimation, among the best of Reformed metaphysicians and this work in particular, I agree with, Voetius is the best introduction to metaphysics.

Credit to OmegaPoint (twitter: @OmegaPoint99) for the translation

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Note there is an error in chapter 19. There it should say "That a singular nature and a suppositum DO NOT differ only in reason alone..." The phrase there might be better translated as “That a singular nature and a suppositum do not differ merely in reason alone…” Senguerdius also says on page 62 that composition between nature and suppositum is not proper composition because they do not join multiple entities that are really distinct. He does not contradict himself here. What he means is that the distinction between a singular nature and a suppositum is a real modal distinction (thus “not merely in reason alone”) but not a simply/strictly real distinction. Senguerdius is substantially in agreement with metaphysicians like Suarez and Scheibler on this point.

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