Contrasting Aquinas and Olivi: Are Intermediaries Needed in Cognition?

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Is intellectual cognition about mental or extramental things? This paper will contrast Aquinas’s and Olivi’s positions, explain why intermediaries are needed in Aquinas’s model, why they seem extraneous in Olivi’s, the benefits and disadvantages of either position and draw a conclusion on the relative merits of either model.

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