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Logic IV. 20.
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the moral application of the word, Aquinas rightly says [Summon Theal?]. [Secunda secundae?]. q. li, ab.3 "synesis importat judiciusn sectum nor guidem circa speculabilia sed circa particularia operabilia." It is the faculty of appreciating the merits of considerations as to what is best. Prudence says Aristitle 9referring to the distinction lad dwon in the Politics 25gE et seq.) is mandatory but synesis critical only. It will be seen that synesis is the preceise faculty to which I make appeal but I do not care to use so technical a term. Gnome is a judgement of conduct based on thorough knowledge of the world and free from harshness and involving a breadth of view that is capable of making due allowances for exceptional circumstances. Aquinas is forced of calling it "quaed am perepicacitas judicii." For synderesis Alberus Magmus cites Basil but I have not got a copy to search for the passage so as to ascertain what the word was. Supposing

Logic IV. 20.
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the moral application of the word, Aquinas rightly says [Summon Theal?]. [Secunda secundae?]. q. li, ab.3 "synesis importat judiciusn sectum nor guidem circa speculabilia sed circa particularia operabilia." It is the faculty of appreciating the merits of considerations as to what is best. Prudence says Aristitle 9referring to the distinction lad dwon in the Politics 25gE et seq.) is mandatory but synesis critical only. It will be seen that synesis is the preceise faculty to which I make appeal but I do not care to use so technical a term. Gnome is a judgement of conduct based on thorough knowledge of the world and free from harshness and involving