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 \nA.2.Is the Human Soul Something Subsistent?  \nA.3.Are the Souls of Irrational Animals Subsistent?  \nA.4.Is the Human Soul the Human Being?  \nA.5.Is the Human Soul Composed of Matter and Form?  \nA.6.Can the Human Soul Pass Away?  \nQ.76:On the Union of the Soul to the Body  \n17  \nA.1.Is the Source of Intellection United to the Body as theBody's Form?  \nA.2.Does Multiplicity of Bodies Multiply the Source ofIntellection?  \nA.3.Do Human Beings Have Other,Essentially Different SoulsBesides the Intellectual Soul?  \nA.4.Is there any other Form in Human Beings Besides theIntellectual Soul?  \nA.5.Is the Intellectual Soul Suitably United to the Body?  \nA.8.Is the Whole Soul in Every Part of the Body?  \nQ.78:On the Powers of the Soul in Particular  \n45  \nA.1.Should We Distinguish Five Kinds of Powers of the Soul?  \nA.2.Do We Suitably Assign the Vegetative Parts of the Soul,Namely,Powers of Nutrition,Growth,and Generation?  \nTHE HUMAN CONSTITUTION  \nA.3.Do We Suitably Distinguish the Five External Senses?  \nA.4.Do We Suitably Distinguish the Internal Senses?  \n61  \nQ.79:On the Intellectual Powers of the Soul  \nA.1.Is the Intellect a Power of the Soul?  \nA.2.Is the Intellect a Passive Power?  \nA.3.Should We Posit an Active Intellect?  \nA.4.Is the Active Intellect Something Belonging to Our Soul?  \nA.6.Is there Memory in the Intellectual Part of the Soul?  \nA.8:Is Reason a Different Power from the Intellect?  \nA.12.Is Synderesis a Special Intellectual Power Distinct fromthe Others?  \nA.13.Is Conscience a Power?  \n81  \nQ.80:On the Appetitive Powers in General  \nA.1.Are Appetites Special Powers of the Soul?  \nA.2.Are Sense and Intellectual Appetites Different Powers?  \n85  \nQ.81:On Sensuality  \nA.1.Is Sensuality only Appetitive?  \nA.2.Do We Distinguish Sense Appetites into Distinct Irascibleand Concupiscible Powers?  \nA.3.Do the Irascible and Concupiscible Powers Obey Reason?  \nQ.82:On the Will  \n93  \nA.1.Does the Will Desire Anything Necessarily?  \nA.2.Does the Will Will Necessarily Everything that It Wills? 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