"Liber de definicionibus" i scholastyczny problem "adaequatio"

• Authors: Pawlikowski Tomasz

Title variants

EN

"Liber de definicionibus" and Scholastic Problem adaequatio

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Thanks to historical and philosophical researches it is known for a long time that the definition “veritas est adequatio rei et intellectus” does not exist literally in any contemporary known lesson of Book of Definition. It is not eliminate the hypothesis that this definition of truth was in some manuscript which was known by scholastics in XIII century, e.g. as a gloss. It is not out of the question that it was wrongly diagnosis as a statement of Isaac Israeli. Analysis of quotes from this part in the Summa of Theology of Albert the Great about truth gives reasons to suppose that he used from manuscript which is similar in content to the manuscript which is in the Code of Munich 8001 but in contrast to text of Isaac Israeli it is not a shortened version. The basis of expression the definition “truth is a compatibility thing and intellect” probably was given by Isaac Israeli term: “the truth is corroborate thing about thing which [that thing] belongs truthfully or to reject thing from thing of which it is a truly rejected”. Supposedly on account of these things St. Thomas Aquinas refered on Isaac as an author of the definition of truth known today as “classic”, he kept in mind sense, not literal identity. Perhaps a gloss from unknowing manuscript suggested this sense or the established interpretation was the result of talks with the champion of Cologne. St. Albert evidently quoted the statement about the truth from Liber de definitionibus what we cannot say about Thomas. In a such situation an enigmatic character still has got an attribution of definition which is interesting for us. Aquinas could directly appeal to the works of Aristotle, in particular to the well-known a term of true appraise from Book IV of Metaphysics (1011b 27). The reason of connection the name of Isaac Israeli with adequatio idea could be that the Doctor Angelicus wanted introduce a definition which has got every kind of truth and at the same time he wanted to remain classical character understanding of it. Liber de definitionibus was good occasion because paraphrase of description true sentence in Aristotle’s think is really unclear. In addition Aristotle made revolutionary change ininterpretation the truth and he referred to an author whose views were not known very well.

Keywords

PL

adaequatio; prawda; Izaak Izraeli; Albert Wielki; Tomasz z Akwinu

EN

adaequatio; truth; Isaac Israeli; Albert the Great; Thomas Aquinas

• Publisher: Naukowe Towarzystwo Tomistyczne
• Journal: Rocznik Tomistyczny
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 4
• Pages: 97-112

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

author

Pawlikowski Tomasz