Epistemology

Disputed Questions on Truth

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Thomas Aquinas

1256

A record of the formal academic disputations Aquinas conducted as a young master at the University of Paris, covering twenty-nine questions on truth, knowledge, faith, and divine foreknowledge. The disputed question format — statement, objections, response, and replies — reveals the rigorous dialectical method at the heart of scholasticism. Questions on the nature of truth as the conformity of mind and thing, on God's knowledge of future contingents, and on the will's relation to intellect anticipate themes Aquinas would develop throughout his career.