id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
0c483j3609k	Philip-Neri Reese, O.P.	Thomas Aquinas and the Demonstrative Character of Metaphysics	2022		.txt	text/plain	294	9	47	In the Aristotelian tradition to which Aquinas belonged, the highest sort of knowledge was demonstrative knowledge (episteme or scientia), in which the knower grasps—on the basis of universal and necessary principles—both that and why some subject necessarily has some property. The purpose of this dissertation is to show that Thomas Aquinas was among those who thought that metaphysics is a legitimate discipline that is in the business of produce knowledge of the highest sort, and that he had good reason to do so—at least by his own lights.	cache/0c483j3609k.txt	txt/0c483j3609k.txt