Of God and His Creatures

"We cannot suppose that such an intelligence is denuded of such presentations," because such supposition would involve that intelligence in total darkness as to the facts of its environment, which darkness would be a stultifying of the whole nature of intelligence. The only question can be, how the angelic intelligence becomes possessed of these presentations. As we shall see in Chap. C, St Thomas takes them to be innate ideas.


Of God and His Creatures: 2.98