Proportionality and Divine Naming: Did St. Thomas Change His Mind about Analogy?

Did Darwin change his mind about the Fuegians?

Shocked by what he considered to be the savagery he encountered in Tierra del Fuego, Charles Darwin ranked the Fuegians lowest among the human races. An enduring story has it, however, that Darwin was later so impressed by the successes of missionaries there, and by the grandeur they discovered in the native tongue, that he changed his mind. This story has served diverse interests, religious an...

Does God Change His Mind?

theologia negationis: maimonides and st. thomas on religious language

A Doctor Speaks His Mind

of this higher incidence among Negro children seems to be related to greater household exposure to sputum positive adults. In any event, the opinion that superinfection is harmless for infected children was shown not true for Negroes, who with their greater susceptibility, tend to develop progressive pulmonary tuberculosis before adolescence, as well as showing a sharp increase in incidence in ...

Analogy and Conceptual Change, or You can't step into the same mind twice

Sometimes analogy researchers talk as if the freshness of an experience of analogy resides solely in seeing that something is like something else -seeing that the atom is like a solar system, that heat is like flowing water, that paint brushes work like pumps, or that electricity is like a teeming crowd. But analogy is more than this. Analogy isn't just seeing that the atom is like a solar syst...