...experience of reality, always in search of union, fulfilling our innate desire to know. Aquinas adds that "the knowing being is naturally adapted to have also the form of some other thing." 1 1 ' We are naturally proportionate to knowing in this way, a necessitos naturalis of knowing. And,...

...from non-intelligent beings in that the latter possess only their own form; whereas the intelligent being is naturally adapted to have also the form of some other thing; for the idea of the thing known is in the knower. Hence it is manifest that the nature of a nonintelligent...