Commentary Par XX 91-93

Commentators, beginning with Scartazzini (DDP Scartazzini.Par.XX.91-92 -- and none who follow him give him credit, as it so very often the case), suggest the trace here of Aquinas's distinction between cognitio sensitiva and cognitio intellectiva (ST II-II, q. 8, a. 1), that is, between knowledge based on sense perception and that based on reason, penetrating to the true meaning of phenomena.