ABSTRACT

What agency might be responsible for such a wondrous thing? Nature?

what schematic . This is because the issues with which we have been con-

along with the authors of the Second Set of Objections:

and though perchance the doubt does not occur to him, nevertheless it may come up, if he examine the matter, or if another suggests it; he can never be safe from it unless he first recognises the existence of a God. [HR 11, 39; AT VII, 141]

follows:

hypothesis presents a metaphysical doubt, can help us to see what Des-

of a demonstration of the Pythagorean theorem before the mind's eye, the