Kenny, Geach, and the Perils of Reading Frege into Aquinas

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I have been studying Anthony Kenny, Aquinas on Being (Oxford UP, 2002). I cannot report that I find it particularly illuminating. I am troubled by the reading back of Fregean doctrines into Aquinas, in particular in the appendix, “Frege and Aquinas on Existence and Number.” (pp. 195-204) Since Kenny borrows heavily from Peter Geach, I will explain one of my misgivings in connection with a passage from Geach’s important article, “Form and Existence” in God and the Soul.

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