The likeness of the thing is received into the intellect according to the mode of the intellect, not according to the mode of the the thing.St. Thomas Aquinas. SUMMA THEOLOGICA. quoted by Bryan Berry, Henry James and the Heavenly Light.
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The likeness of the thing is received into the intellect according to the mode of the intellect, not according to the mode of the the thing.St. Thomas Aquinas. SUMMA THEOLOGICA. quoted by Bryan Berry, Henry James and the Heavenly Light.
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Very helpful and thought provoking to me presently...
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