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On Holy Saturday morning at 10:30 am, we will be discussing INSIGHT, chapter 14, section 3 (Method in Metaphysics). We will link it to METHOD […]
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Whether there are many ideas in God (Super I Sententiarum, Dist. 36, Quaest. 2, Art. 2) translated by Samuel Pell vis-à-vis Lonergan’s reference to this […]
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