Some scholars suggested the idea of “double truth,” that is, that something could be true philosophically but not true theologically, and vice versa. In all likelihood, no one really believed this, but it was offered as a possible answer to the problem. Another more promising solution was to suggest that there were some things that could only be known through biblical revelation, so that the ancient philosophers worked things out as best they could from unaided reason, but that ultimately we know better because God has revealed truth to us that is inaccessible to pure human reason.
