Disputed Questions on Truth
A series of university disputations examines truth, knowledge, will and providence. Truth is not merely a property of sentences: it involves the relation between intellect and the thing known.
Understanding the text
The questions derive from disputations held during Aquinas’s first Paris mastership, roughly between 1256 and 1259.
Key points
- 01
Correspondence
Truth is considered as a relation between intellect and thing, with both terms requiring explanation.
- 02
Knowledge
Human and divine knowledge do not relate to their objects in the same manner.
- 03
Will
Questions about choice and the good connect theories of knowing and acting.
How to read it
Follow one question and its objections before comparing its response with the later formulation in the Summa.
Editions & sources
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