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 Topics
Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to Topics.
Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Aristotle.
Evidence ledger
- Aquinas's dialectical objection-and-response method in the Sentences commentary reflects training in Aristotle's Topics, part of the standard logical curriculum of his scholastic formation.