Crossword-Solution: ENTIA 5 letters, 17 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

But because to that which truly IS it appertains to continue in its being, and because sensible things sometimes are, sometimes are not, continually passing from one being to another and perpetually changing their state, he thought they required some other name than that of ENTIA, or things which always are.

For these things, they say, are not ENTIA but SOME THINGS; and they perpetually treat of them in their lives and in their philosophy, as of things having subsistence and existence.

But if they are to possess the least objective validity, and to represent anything but mere creations of thought (entia rationis ratiocinantis), a deduction of them must be possible.

All division, distinction and relation are but _entia rationis._ Imagination and abstraction can give to them, as they can give to mere negation and nothingness, "a local habitation and a name," but they have no objective meaning, and in the highest knowledge, in the _scientia intuitiva_, which deals only with reality, they must entirely disappear.

The old rule applies--_Entia non sunt pr犚er necessitatem multiplicanda._ * * * * * My task is now finished--I will not say completed, for the subject of naval warfare is far too vast to be exhausted within the narrow compass of a Manual.