...and why Aristotle called theology a science.
When I was at school, I enjoyed mathematics a lot more than PE. So when my PE teacher said my mathematics teacher was an idiot for believing that negative numbers existed, I naturally sided with my mathematics teacher. Now while I would still probably side with my mathematics teacher, I wouldn’t be quite so ready to judge my PE teacher as a mathematical ignoramus as I did back then. But during school and when I went on to study mathematics at university, I took it for granted that the mathematical objects we studied existed in some kind of Platonic realm. It was only once I entered the Dominican Order and started reading St Thomas Aquinas that I began to question this assumption.
