Tag: a priori
Aquinas’ Third Way: An Analogy to Moonlight
Imagine that you are an astronomer on a world with one moon. It is always night on your world, and the moon is the only body in the sky.
Irrefutable, Impeccable, Inescapable: Aquinas’ Second Way
Every grain of sand is a link in an essential causal chain.
Essence and Existence in Modern Science
St. Thomas laid the intellectual groundwork for modern natural science — the absolute distinction between existence and essence.
Aquinas’ First Way and a Stack of Books
Nature is like a stack of books, sessile, until moved.