“Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.”

q. 2, art. 3, arg. 19
This is known as the Peripatetic axiom.
De veritate (c. 1256–1259)

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Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catho… 1225–1274

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