
Faith, Reason, And Reasonable Belief | Prof. Joshua Hochschild
The Thomistic Institute
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Aquinas's Problem of Knowledge
Realism holds that the world is constituted and organized by intelligible, actual sing principles or forms. If things in the world have causes making them to be what they are, we can know about those things to the extent that those causes or forms are somehow impressed on or received into our cognition. The mode of the human mind receiving the various modes of actualizing powers in the world, faces a number of intrinsic obstacles and limits,. A consequence of which is the prevalence of ignorance. Even when it is possible, knowledge of some things might be obtained only in alim e way, and only with a great deal of help.
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