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  1. Oct 2022
    1. A numberhave to do with God’s knowledge of other things. Art. 3/13 maintains “that God does notknow things other than himself.” According to art. 56/14, God cannot know contingentthings immediately but only by means of another particular and proximate cause. Art. 42/15argues against God’s knowledge of future contingents.

      I'm confused here, are they arguing that God has limitations on his knowledge, but I thought one of the key points about God was that he was all knowing and all powerful? And if so, what conclusions brought them to that point?

    2. Shortly after the condemnation, in about 1277–9, an unknownwriter reorganized the articles into a version preserved in a medieval Collectio errorum inAnglia et Parisius condemnatorum.

      An interesting thing to do, why reorganize a series of condemned articles after the fact?

    1. the domain of natural philosophy was the wholeof nature. It did not represent any single science, but could, and did,embrace bits and pieces of all science

      It's kinda interesting but it also kind of makes sense that originally, the different branches of science such as biology, chemistry, and physics were all one science that eventually branched off into the different branches that we know today.

    2. ion, when theEmperor Theodosius ordered the closing of pagan temples and forbade pagan wors

      From what I've heard, the story for why this happened is wild. Supposedly, either the emperor, or some high ranking general was about to head into a seemingly unbeatable battle when a big golden cross emboldened the sky above the battlefield. The general or emperor somehow won and converted to Christianity afterwards, causing the rest of the empire to do so as well. I've probably gotten tons of facts about the legend wrong but this is just what I remember from what I've heard.