Positive reconstruction · reader-scoped, not an inferred-absence lacuna
This reconstruction covers the readable fraction of Thomas Aquinas's formation -- attested reading and writing only, not the whole of a life.
Thomas Aquinas and Categories
Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to Categories.
Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Aristotle.
Evidence ledger
- The substance/accident distinction Aquinas relies on throughout his sacramental theology, worked out already in the Sentences commentary, is the Aristotelian apparatus of the Categories, part of the standard early logical curriculum.