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The '''Peripatetic axiom''' is: "''Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses''". It is found in [[Thomas Aquinas]]'s De veritate, q. 2 a. 3 arg. 19. Aquinas adopted this principle from the Peripatetic school of [[philosophy]], established by [[Aristotle]]. Aquinas argued that the existence of [[God]] could be proved by reasoning from sense data. He used a variation on the Aristotelian notion of the "active intellect" which he interpreted as the ability to abstract universal meanings from particular empirical data.

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