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Szopa R.

Kwartalnik Filozoficzny

2014

vol. 42

issue 2

63-90

The medieval understanding of the a priori differed from that of Kant, for whom it meant knowledge prior to experience. Before Kant a priori knowledge was about causes and a posteriori knowledge about results. In this understanding necessity is a very important feature of the a priori. Both the a priori and the a posteriori begin from sensual cognition. But because a priori knowledge has the feature of necessity, it allows us achieve necessary results. Due to this, God as a logical result of causal cognition of the world is a necessary result of cognition. The theory of participation in turn tells us what is the source of the necessity of a priori knowledge: the world does not exist by itself but needs God, who sustains it in existence. According to Thomistic philosophy the world enables human reason to find traces of the Creator. Human reason was created by God to discover His existence, and according to St. Thomas Aquinas this is the principal aim of the created world.

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