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5 March 2023

  • curprev 08:3308:33, 5 March 2023β€Ž Bacchus talk contribsβ€Ž 588 bytes +588β€Ž Created page with "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..."
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