Question: Is it not obvious that there is truth which cannot be encapsulated in propositions? Or does the very notion of truth, once unravelled, "contain" the...
There is the question of Our Lord's saying: "I am the way and the truth and the life". I take this in a literal sense. That He is the basis of truth. There is...
Pardon the intrustion, but I don't see that understanding truth can be separated from language unless it is sufficient to separate understanding from...
If we are concerned with the Aristotelian or Thomistic point(s) of view, then I don't think it is right to say that "explaining requires language," unless we...
On the one hand, Aristotle certainly holds that there is a reality that exists independently of our perceptions and verbalizations. For example, see his ...
There is an excellent treatment of this subject - from impression to thought to language to speech - in Stanley Rosen's book on THE SOPHIST. I think it would...
But does not your ending - "propositions may be authoritative without being complete or True" - contradict your statement that time has no existence prior to...
Seems to me that the reality is probably [as usual] immensely complex, so sure, it is not *necessarily* the case that there is degradation of meaning from...
This question is very easy to answer, since ST I.16.2 is specifically devoted to the question, "Whether truth resides only in the intellect composing and...
There we go. ________________________________ From: aquinas@yahoogroups.com [mailto:aquinas@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Crifasi Sent: Friday, May 02,...
Aquinas says in De Veritate, Question 1, art 2 Reply: "Even if there were no human intellects, things could be said to be true because of their relation to the...
Truth always requires a relationship to a mind, either the divine, angelic, or human mind. As Aquinas says in STheol I, q. 16, a. 7, there are eternal truths...
Here's I Q 16 without the hyperlinks: Question 16. Truth 1. Does truth reside in the thing, or only in the intellect? 2. Does it reside only in the intellect...
O.k., so according to Aquinas, it makes no sense to talk about truth either in things or in the mind. Rather, it is a measure of the intellect's grasp of...
Not only that but Truth is that which leads to God and so if there were not a Divine Intellect there would be no definition of Truth and thus no essence of...
In us there are two acts of the intellect: insight and judgment, and it is in the latter that truth resides. In God there is only the one act of infinite...
... He doesn't rule that out, as is clear just one question later in ST I.17.2: Whether there is falsity in the senses? OBJ 1: It seems that falsity is not in...
Sure. I find all sorts of passages in the Summa where Aquinas addresses confusions that arise when two faculties (or powers) are working together. For...
An apprehension cannot be mistaken, but a judgment can. Would you agree that truth is in the senses only insofar as the senses "participate" in the judgment of...
Yes, it is the mind that makes a judgment on the basis of what the senses deliver. The stick in the water is seen as bent, because that is how it registers on...
... That isn't what he says in (ST I.17.2): "Falsity is not to be sought in the senses except as truth is in them. Now truth is not in them in such a way as...
Exactly. It makes no sense to talk about truth or falsity of an apprehension (apprehendio). The apprehension of a bent stick is what it is. You might say, to...
Anthony, as usual you are so prolific that you are stressing my bandwidth (forgive the engineering metaphor). Skimming your post I see some very interesting...
Put it this way [I am looking out my window]: no amount of discourse [speech] and no amount of words will capture the thing that is a blossoming apple tree....
Or as formulated by Msgr. Ronald Knox: " There was a young man who said "God Must find it exceedingly odd To think that the tree Should continue to be When...
"The stick is seen as bent" - this is a true report of the sense. That the stick is not bent is another matter. Leaving the stick in the water and, closing...
I just wanted to run something by?on this. If I am seeing something like the color red?then my apprehension of my seeing red cannot be mistaken if it appears...
