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Taken in one way, Suárez explains, this question addresses the principle-quod (or 'the principal cause which operates'), that is, the thing or suppositum from which a certain action arises.
The principle- quo of an action is nothing but the power by means of which a suppositum can perform a particular action.
So, literally speaking, it is, at least usually, not the power itself which brings about an effect, but rather its suppositum which produces the effect in virtue of a power.
In conjunction these two views immediately imply that mere accidents - which usually inhere in an underlying suppositum and hence only operate as principles-quo - can in excep- tional cases also figure as principles-quod of their operations.
For it is certain that it is the suppositum taken in the first way that operates.
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