Aquinas's doctrine of subordinate sciences shows that conditional scientific truths borrow their certainty from higher principles, paralleling how faith truths derive certainty from divine authority.
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Aquinas's theory that some fields of study (like biology or geometry) depend on more fundamental truths from higher fields (like physics or mathematics) for their certainty and validity.
Faith truths(what derives certainty from divine authority)
Religious or spiritual beliefs that are accepted as true because they come from sacred sources (like scripture or divine revelation) rather than from evidence you can observe or test.
Higher principles(what provides certainty to conditional truths)
More fundamental or foundational truths that don't need to be proven because they're self-evident or universally accepted.