Resolving the Inconsistencies in Aquinas's Truth Theory - Aporia

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it in our lives. At the same time, Aquinas’s use of theology maintains the other aspect of truth that we
normally think of: its eternal, immutable nature. Aquinas offers a truth theory that encompasses the best
of both worlds to offer a complete picture of truth.
Notes
1. The "common notion" of truth spoken of here is the idea that true thoughts and statements are those
that correspond to the facts.
2. Simon Blackburn and Keith Simmons, Truth (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999) 1.
3. St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Volume 4: Knowledge in God (Great Britain: Eyre and
Scottiswood Limited, 1964) 77.
4. Aquinas 81.
5. All correspondence theories state that true statements correspond with the facts, but Alfred Tarski is
responsible for devising the T-sentence formulation to express this correspondence.
6. Aquinas 81.
7. Aquinas 89.
8. Aquinas 91.
9. Aquinas 91.
10. Aquinas 87.
11. Aquinas 87.
12. Though we normally ascribe truth to statements and propositions, Aquinas does assert that truth also
resides in things.
13. Aquinas 89.
14. Aquinas 89.
15. Aquinas 81.
16. Aquinas 77.
17. Aquinas 77.
18. Aquinas 99.
19. Aquinas 99.
20. Armand Maurer, C.S.B., St. Thomas and Historicity (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1979)