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Ideas for H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim, Thomas Aquinas and J.B. Watson

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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 5. Naturalism

21268	Non-human things are explicable naturally, and voluntary things by the will, so God is not needed [Aquinas]
	Full Idea: All natural things can be reduced to one principle, which is nature; and all voluntary things can be reduced to one principle, which is human reason, or will. Therefore God does not exist.
	From: Thomas Aquinas (Summa Theologicae [1265], Ia,Q02,Art3,Ob2)
	A reaction: Not, of course, the opinion of Aquinas. So the possibility of naturalism (assuming the human will can be further reduced to nature) was a clear option in the thirteenth century. In reply Aquinas cites his Fifth Way.