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Number and Reality 3: The Demonstration That 2 Plus 2 Are 4 Spelled Out

Posted on December 5, 2020 by Rchard E. Hennessey

(You will find below the demonstration, promised in the title of this post, that 2 plus 2 are 4. First, however, I have to say something about the post I have been promising, but failing, to publish for some time … Continue reading →

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Aquinas’s Thesis of the Identity of the Intellect Knowing and the Intellectual Object Known

Posted on September 13, 2017 by Rchard E. Hennessey

This post is the eighth in a series dedicated to a sustained reading of and commentary upon Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics.* 0. In a previous post, the “Touching upon the Theory of Act and Potency,” of August 23, … Continue reading →

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Touching upon the Theory of Act and Potency

Posted on August 23, 2017 by Rchard E. Hennessey

0. I’ll start this post, the sixth in a series dedicated to a sustained reading of and commentary upon Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on the Metaphysics of Aristotle,* with a brief overview of the posts that have seen the light of … Continue reading →

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Aquinas on the First Principles 1

Posted on August 7, 2017 by Rchard E. Hennessey

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself” 0. This post is the fourth in a series dedicated to a sustained reading of and commentary upon Thomas … Continue reading →

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Metaphysical Pluralism. An Appendix to “The Principle of Metaphysical Realism”

Posted on August 1, 2017 by Rchard E. Hennessey

0. In my immediately previous post, “The Principle of Metaphysical Realism,” I presented said principle, that There is at least something. or that At least something exists. as “the utterly basic, and thus absolutely first, principle of metaphysics,” prior even … Continue reading →

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Aquinas’s Argument That One Science Must “Rule” the Others. A Critical Assessment.

Posted on July 16, 2017 by Rchard E. Hennessey

0. This post is the second in a series dedicated to a sustained reading of and commentary upon Aquinas’s Commentary on the Metaphysics of Aristotle. In my immediately previous post, I stated that this post would be focused upon the … Continue reading →

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Reading Aquinas’s Commentary on the Metaphysics of Aristotle. Introduction

Posted on July 15, 2017 by Rchard E. Hennessey

One of the greatest works in the history of metaphysics is the Commentary on the Metaphysics of Aristotle of Thomas Aquinas. It is a work that I have longed for decades to read in the sustained and systematic way that … Continue reading →

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Universals in Feser’s The Last Superstitution. A Neo-Aristotelian Alternative to Realism in the Theory of Universals

Posted on January 21, 2015 by Rchard E. Hennessey

1. As I noted in the immediately previous post, the “Feser on Faith in The Last Superstition 1: Pure Reason and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ” of January 16, 2015, I foresee that the second post in the series I am … Continue reading →

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Feser on Faith in The Last Superstition 1: Pure Reason and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ

Posted on January 16, 2015 by Rchard E. Hennessey

1. I first read Edward Feser’s The Last Superstition* a few years ago, as part of an earlier effort at understanding Thomas Aquinas’s attempts at proving the existence of God. Then, however, for a variety of reasons, I relegated that … Continue reading →

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Chastek and the Aristotelico-Thomistic Theory of Time. An Aristotelian Critique

Posted on January 4, 2015 by Rchard E. Hennessey

0. In “Our contribution to motion and time,” his January 3, 2015, post to his blog, Just Thomism, James Chastek offers a brief statement of the Aristotelico-Thomistic understanding of time. Time is a sort of measure, and so presupposes some contribution … Continue reading →

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