Crossword-Solution: PRESCIND 8 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

That a thing should be really perceived by my senses, and at the same time not really exist, is to me a plain contradiction; since I cannot prescind or abstract, even in thought, the existence of a sensible thing from its being perceived.

The principles given in 2506, 2507, apply also to impure desires with this difference that the mind when it wills external performance considers the object as it is in itself, not as it is mentally represented, and hence is less likely to prescind from actual circumstances known to it, But even here confessional investigation is sometimes not necessary on account of its moral impossibility.

Thus, for example, the differentiating concept “rational” is not contained even implicitly in the generic concept “animal”: it is added on _ab extra_ to the latter(50) in order to reach the specific concept of “rational animal” or “man”; so that in abstracting the generic from the subordinate specific concept we prescind _objectively_ and _really_ from the differentiating concept, by positively excluding this latter.

This is what takes place in the _imperfect_ virtual distinction: the concepts prescind from one another formally, not objectively.

Thought therefore prescinds from that unity which material things could not by themselves contain, but from which it is impossible to prescind absolutely unless we wish to be reduced to an absurd conception.