The moderator told me questions like this aren’t stupid and they’re the point of this community.

I want an answer.

  • steeznson@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    This was actually a Victorian parody question they invented to make fun of medieval philosophers. Nowadays we think Thomas Aquinas, etc. were making quite sophisticated points, albeit within the boundaries of the religious society of the time.