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Episode 18 – Causality According to the Aristotelian-Thomistic Perspective | Prof. Michael Gorman

Aquinas 101 - Course 2: Introduction to Thomistic Philosophy

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The Quineness Versus He or He Does a Picky Question

If he were here today, I think he would have to choose between two things. He could stick to his hardcore position and say that there's no part of the cat that is not essentially feline. That would make a cat basically just like an artifact, a fancy complicated football. The other thing he would do is he might say, okay, what I said back then in the 1260s, that wasn't right. However, it's still not just an arrangement. We don't really know what that second kind of account would look like. But it would be needed because for a quineness, a substance has to be very strong. And arrangement of independent things is not enough

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