The mathematical method is disinterested in the efficient cause and the final cause or the goodness of a thing and it should not be so disinterested.
Fulton J. SheenIn a like manner, as soon as we know the meaning of being and the meaning of nonbeing, we know that a thing cannot be and not be at one and the same time, and under the same formal consideration.
Fulton J. SheenMots clés being
The Angelic Doctor himself is not certain that the astronomical theories of his own time explain the heavens and the movements of the sun and the stars
Fulton J. SheenAny event or group of events may be viewed from different degrees of abstraction. A man jumps from a bridge. The psychologists make abstraction from everything except the mental state which prompted the suicide; the biologists abstract from everything except the dying organism; while the physicists are interested in the man, not as mind, or as organism, but as a falling body.
Fulton J. SheenThe familiar would of sense experience is not entirely objectively real, but is to some extent a product of the scientists' reasoning.
Fulton J. SheenThe term science means something quite different for our generation than it did not so many generations ago.
Fulton J. SheenMots clés science
Hearing is the motion of molecules; sound is a wave in the atmosphere; solidity is the characteristic of spatial juxtaposition of atoms; smell is something given off by a body, rather than something belonging to a body.
Fulton J. SheenDo mathematics have a relation to reality or are they only a mathematical symbol?
Fulton J. SheenIf you know where you are, you do not know how fast you are moving, and if you know how fast you are moving, you do not know where you are.
Fulton J. SheenFor if we understood or said that colour is not in a coloured body, or that it is separated from it, there would be error in this opinion or assertion. But if we consider colour and its properties, without reference to the apple which is coloured; or if we express in words what we thus understand, there is no error in such an opinion or assertion, because an apple is not essential to colour, and therefore, colour can be understood independently of the apple.
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