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under the patronage of St Joseph and St Dominic By the rivers of Babylon there we sat and wept, remembering Zion; |
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Science and PhilosophyI - The EtherSome things are so obvious we hardly need express them. Among them is the truth that nothing (ie, non-existence) does not exist. Yet this is the claim implicit in the assertion of scientists that space is a void, a place empty of any matter. Aristotle, and after him St Thomas Aquinas, consistent with common sense, taught that this is impossible. Aristotle gave a name to the matter with which the apparent void in the heavens is filled, 'aether'. more II - The Theory of KnowledgeHow is it that we know? The explanation derives from the doctrines of causality, and of matter and form. more |