Theological Theses · §2006 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Vasquez and Valentia call it simply conditional, reducible to the other two; a dispute about words

Some, however, call this knowledge of future things under a condition not 'middle' but simply 'conditional'. They think it can easily be reduced either to the knowledge of vision, as some hold, or, as many more hold, to the knowledge of simple intelligence. Vasquez and Gregory of Valentia are among these.

Vasquez does note, though, that nothing prevents setting up some third category between those two kinds of divine knowledge for the sake of teaching and clarity. The disagreement, he says, is about words, not things, and it matters little if people speak differently on the point. Volume 1, disputation 67, near the end.

Latin

XI. Nihilominus scientiam istam futurorum sub conditione nonnulli, non mediam, sed conditionatam simpliciter appellant, quoniam censent illam facile revocari posse, vel ad scientiam visionis, juxta quosdam; vel juxta plures alios, ad scientiam simplicis intelligentiae: quo de numero sunt Vasquez & Gregorius de Valentia. Quanquam observat Vasquez nihil obesse, si doctrinae & claritatis gratia, inter duas illas scientiae divinae species tertium aliquod membrum constituatur: atque hanc dissensionem vocum esse, non rerum, nec multum referre, si qui hac in re varie loquantur. Tom. 1. disp. 67. sub finem.

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