Sentences with phrase «per accidens»

And thus also this looks to the common reason, that any form which comes to an entity already constituted in act does not make it one per se, but per accidens... and thus it is not able to be a substantial form, but only an accidental one, because a substantial form constitutes a one per se, not per accidens.

This indisputable fact should not be too easily passed over with the famous scholastic distinction that this happens per accidens (accidentally).