The Thomistic Realist's Argument for Recognition Transcendentality

Haldane: There is nothing in the intellect that is not first in the senses. We get all our concepts from the world itself and this is why our conceptual capacities cannot outstrip our recognitional capacities, he says. Haldane justifies his thesis by reference to the Thomistic principle that there is nothing more in the intellect. He has some reason to regard such a view as mysterious and perhaps even incoherent," writes David Frum.