Questions tagged [scholastic]

In the study of scholastic philosophy, I'm struggling with this question for a while: It seems like dogs do know what dogs are. Aquinas states that animals have perception, capable of complex cognition: By definition, the living things that we call…

I have thought a lot a about mathematics and it's foundations. There have been several attempts to give it a solid foundation, and they all failed. Frege / Russell logical atomist approach failed, intuitionist logic failed, set theory did succeed to…

There's a useful summary of the subject of universals in the public domain Encyclopedia.com. In it, we read: Realist and conceptualist theories of universals are, by long tradition, regarded as opposed because according to realism universals are…