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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 February 2009
The proofs offered by St. Thomas of the existence of God suggest a problem. The day is past when the scholasticism of the Middle Ages was scornfully—often ignorantly—dismissed. The intellectual strength of a thinker such as St. Thomas is amply recognized.
page 301 note 1 For this definition I am indebted to my friend Mr. A. E. Blumberg.
page 301 note 2 Cf. Russell, Whitehead, Wittgenstein.
page 301 note 3 Cf. the God of Spinoza.
page 301 note 4 Cf. Einstein, Geometrie und Erfahrung, etc., in Relitivitatstheorie.
page 301 note 5 Analysis of Mind, p. 96.
page 302 note 1 Cf. the pure rationality of mathematics, the pure empiricism of physics, and the mixed (therefore empirical) method of history.
page 303 note 1 Cf. Burtt, E. A., The Metaphysics of Sir Isaac Newton, p. 13Google Scholar. Russell, B., Introduction à la philosophie mathématique, p. 8Google Scholar. Whitehead, A. N., Science and the Modern World, chap, iii, p. 67.Google Scholar
page 304 note 1 Cf. Whitehead, , op. cit., chap, i, p. 3.Google Scholar
page 305 note 1 Sum. Theol., I. II. 2.
page 305 note 2 Ibid., I. II. 3.
page 306 note 1 Analysis of Mind, pp. 93–4.
page 306 note 2 Ibid., p. 98.
page 306 note 3 Sum. Theol., I. II. 3, and cf. Sum. C. Gen., XIII. The whole of St. Thomas's argument should be read.
page 307 note 1 “There is certainly no logical reason against infinite collections.” Russell, , Int. Math. Phil., p. 76.Google Scholar
page 307 note 2 Metaphysics of Sir Isaac Newton, p. 13.
page 308 note 1 Sum. Theol., I, II. 3.
page 308 note 2 Ibid.
page 308 note 3 Cf. Ibid., I. II. 1, and Russell, Int. Math. Phil., p. 204.
page 310 note 1 Sum. Theol., I. II. 3.
page 310 note 2 Burtt, E. A., Metaphysics of Sir Isaac Newton: “Science is the exact mathematical formulation of the processes of the natural world,” p. 223.Google Scholar Note: mathematical, therefore not causal sequences.
page 310 note 3 Cf., however, Whitehead’s “Principle of Concretion” in Science and the Modern World, and Alexander’s Space, Time and Deity.