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Thomas Aquinas

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 Posterior Analytics

Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to Posterior Analytics.

Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Aristotle.

Evidence ledger

  • Aquinas's early methodological framing of theology as a demonstrative science in the Sentences commentary's prologue draws on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics account of scientific demonstration, studied from the logical-works curriculum of his scholastic training.