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In this paper I will argue that although Anthony Kenny‟s objections to Aquinas‟s “intellectus ess... more In this paper I will argue that although Anthony Kenny‟s objections to Aquinas‟s “intellectus essentiae” argument for the real distinction of essence and existence in creatures are quite easily answerable in terms of a proper reconstruction of the argument, the argument thus reconstructed is still open to an objection offered by the John Buridan in his Questions on Aristotle’s Metaphysics. The discussion of how Aquinas could handle Buridan‟s objection will show that the conflict between their judgments concerning the validity of the argument rests on a fundamental difference between Aquinas‟s and Buridan‟s conceptions of how our concepts latch onto things in the world. These considerations will lead at the end of the paper to some general and rather sketchy reflections on the possibility of arguing “across” paradigmatically different conceptual frameworks.
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