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From: "C. G. Estabrook" <BR>
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Thomas never quite calls them proofs (and rejects as unsound the so-called<BR>
ontological argument) -- in part because he doesn't think God "exists" as<BR>
things do (i.e., if you made a complete list of everything in the<BR>
universe, the list would not properly include "God.") In context (Summa<BR>
theologiae 1.2.3), he suggests five ways ("viae") that the universe by its<BR>
existence poses a problem (roughly, "How come?"). The answer -- which he<BR>
insists is literally unknowable -- "this, we call God" (et hoc dicimus<BR>
deum). --CGE<BR>
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^^^^<BR>
CB: How's he "know" they are unknowable ?<BR>
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