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 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.