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The Empiricist Dimension of the Metaphysical Argumentation of Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle

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  • Carlos Llano Cifuentes
Carlos Llano Cifuentes
Universidad de Bari

Published 2013-11-28

Keywords

  • Aristotle,
  • Thomas Aquinas,
  • metaphysics,
  • argumentation,
  • mathematics,
  • a priori,
  • a posteriori
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Cifuentes, C. L. (2013). The Empiricist Dimension of the Metaphysical Argumentation of Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle. Tópicos, Revista De Filosofía, 17(1), 153-198. https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v17i1.372
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Abstract

The author intends to evince how demonstrations, as used by Aristotle and Aquinas, do not resemble ordinary mathematical demonstrations. In Aristotle and Aquinas's metaphysics, demonstrations are preferentially a posteriori by means of efficient cause, while mathematics uses in first place the a priori demonstration by means of  formal cause. This difference rules metaphysics out from the rationalism addressed by Descartes.

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