(Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, Book II).Footnote 7 This was, so to speak, the first complaint against determinism (the goal of Epicurus/Lucretius was to make room for free will in a world otherwise seen as effectively dead because of the everlasting sequence of cause and effect), and indeed...
Thomas clearly states that ascribing intellectual reasoning to metaphysics does not mean that discursive reasoning, advancing from cause to effects (from empirical data to general conclusions) is not conducted in its realm. It means, however, that its reasoning especially resembles (resembles as much ...