The Third Form of Abstraction

St. Thomas Aquinas wrote a work called Superboethium de Trinitata, which is a commentary on Boethius' work on the Trinity. In it he describes the division and method of the sciences. He says that in natural philosophy, one considers ends mobile, or mobile being. And then with metaphysics, we consider ends cumune, or ends in quantum-est ends. This roughly aligns with what St. Thomas and Aristotle would call natural philosophy. Now, faith, strictly here speaking, isn't science in the classic Aristotelian sense, but faith is the disposition that informs Science.