The Problem With Recognition, Trans-Transcendent Truth Conditions

Thomas seems committed to affirming at least the possibility of recognition, transcendent truth conditions. A person can acquire a conceptual understanding of a recognition, trans-transcendent state of affairs simply by acquiring an understanding of the constituent words that express this state of affairs and their mood of combination. This example about angels also shows that the existence of recognition, transcending truth conditions is fully compatible with the Thomas principle that all our concepts are ultimately derived from the senses. They must affirm all three of the realist thesis I presented earlier. Ontological, epistemological and semantic realism.