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  • On Illustration and the Meaning of Things

    On Illustration and the Meaning of Things

    So, whereas in every other science things are signified by words, this science has the property, that the things signified by the words have themselves also a signification. St Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, I q.1 a.10. In college I took a class on ancient and medieval philosophy. The professor, who was not herself a Catholic,…