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Aquinas' Epistemology Challenges Traditional Views on Knowledge and Representation.

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Understanding of Real Being: debatable questions of Thomist' Epistemology in the light of contemporary studies
Андрій Баумейстер

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The article examines Thomas Aquinas' Realistic Epistemology and challenges the idea that it is a form of Empirism or Aposteriorism. It argues against the views of Krąpiec and Swieżawski. Aquinas does not reject a priori knowledge, but rather has a theory of formal a priori. His Epistemology is not a version of Representationalism. Aquinas' theory of ideas is a correction of Augustine's and Platonism's views.