commutative

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In your own words, state the commutative property of addition.

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The commutative property has to do with order.

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In order to combine like terms in the next example, we will use the commutative property of addition to write the like terms together.

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Since changing the order of the subtraction did not give the same result, we know that subtraction is not commutative.

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Therefore restitution is not more an act of commutative than of distributive justice.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint