Thomas Aquinas - About work - 164335

"It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.“

-Thomas Aquinas

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It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.

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