Book contents
- Suárez’s Metaphysical Disputations
- CAMBRIDGE CRITICAL GUIDES
- Suárez’s Metaphysical Disputations
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I The Character of Suárez’s Metaphysical Disputations
- Part II Being, Its Properties, and Ancillary Notions
- Chapter 2 Suárez’s Metaphysics of Modality
- Chapter 3 The Analogy of the True
- Chapter 4 Suárez, Extrinsic Denomination, and the Explicatio Entis
- Chapter 5 Suárez on the Origin of Falsity
- Chapter 6 Something About Nothing
- Chapter 7 Suárez on Distinctions
- Part III Causation
- Part IV Corporeal Substance
- Part V Categories
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE CRITICAL GUIDES
Chapter 3 - The Analogy of the True
Suárez’s Explanation of the Relation Between Ontic Truth and Epistemic Truth in the Scholastic Context
from Part II - Being, Its Properties, and Ancillary Notions
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Book contents
- Suárez’s Metaphysical Disputations
- CAMBRIDGE CRITICAL GUIDES
- Suárez’s Metaphysical Disputations
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I The Character of Suárez’s Metaphysical Disputations
- Part II Being, Its Properties, and Ancillary Notions
- Chapter 2 Suárez’s Metaphysics of Modality
- Chapter 3 The Analogy of the True
- Chapter 4 Suárez, Extrinsic Denomination, and the Explicatio Entis
- Chapter 5 Suárez on the Origin of Falsity
- Chapter 6 Something About Nothing
- Chapter 7 Suárez on Distinctions
- Part III Causation
- Part IV Corporeal Substance
- Part V Categories
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE CRITICAL GUIDES
Summary
According to Thomas Aquinas ‘true’ is predicated essentially of things with reference to truth in the intellect. His reflections on the relation between ontic truth and cognitive truth raise questions which in later scolasticism - in connection with difficulties within the doctrine of analogy - give rise to controversies on the structure and ontological meaning of the analogia veri. In the Thomistic tradition Cajetan’s solution had a strong influence, although it reduces ontic truth to a mere extrinsic denomination. Against this position Suárez develops a new interpretation of the order of predication of ‘true’. It confirms both (a) the Aristotelian doctrine according to which the original place of truth is the intellect - and (b) the traditional doctrine of the transcendentals according to which true is not a mere extrinsic denomination, but their inner entity under a certain respect. The study seeks to explain Suárez’s solution against its historical background.
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- Suárez's Metaphysical DisputationsA Critical Guide, pp. 54 - 70Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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