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...through it, so does he. Did you know that the distinction came from the philosophical thought of the middle ages? I didn't.

"We are enjoying intellectus when we 'just see' a self-evident truth; we are exercising ratio when we proceed step by step to prove a truth which is not self-evident. A cognitive life in which all truth can be simply 'seen' would be the life of an intelligentia, an angel....

I am consistently amazed by how little I know. Today I am left with a feeling of respect for other authors which have somehow managed to imbibe the meaning and beliefs of past ages and then pour them forth into their own work. Take Harry Dresden for a moment, he makes friends with the intellectus of the Island in Lake Michigan. He explains it as a spirit that knows everything about it's little island, and...

"Virtue is tarnished if a man displays it so as to get credit for it."

Boethius I Pros. III, P. 140.

I do so love lewis.

"In our age, I think it would be fair to say that the ease with which a scientific theory assumes the dignity and rigidity of fact varies inversely with the individual's scientific education. In discussion with wholly uneducated audiences I have sometimes found matter which real scientists would regard as highly speculative, more firmly believed than many things within our real knowledge."

The real reason why Copernicus raised no ripple and Galileo raised a storm, may well be that, whereas the one offered a new suppose about celestial motions, the other insisted on treating the supposal as fact. If so, the real revolution consisted not in a new theory of the heavens but in 'a new theory of the nature of theory'.