如何理解阿奎那說的「Cognitio est quidam veritatis effectus」？

01-22

如題，語出Thomas de Aquino, Quaestiones disputatae de veritate, q. 1
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Prima ergo comparatio entis ad intellectum est ut ens intellectui concordet: quae quidem concordia adaequatio intellectus et rei dicitur; et in hoc formaliter ratio veri perficitur. Hoc est ergo quod addit verum super ens, scilicet conformitatem, sive adaequationem rei et intellectus; ad quam conformitatem, ut dictum est, sequitur cognitio rei. Sic ergo entitas rei praecedit rationem veritatis, sed cognitio est quidam veritatis effectus.

The first reference of being to the intellect, therefore, consists in its agreement with the intellect. This agreement is called 「the conformity of thing and intellect.」 In this conformity is fulfilled the formal constituent of the true, and this is what the true adds to being, namely, the conformity or equation of thing and intellect. As we said, the knowledge of a thing is a consequence of this conformity; therefore, it is an effect of truth, even though the fact that the thing is a being is prior to its truth.

-Thomas Aquinas: Quaestiones disputatae de veritate: English

這裡是阿奎那展開講他的「超越性的範疇」的第一個範疇：真。所謂真，就是存在者（ens）和理性（intellectus）的一種相符合性（concordere），其本質是一種思與物的「趨同」(ad-aequatio)，「真」的意義便是在這裡得到其（形式上的，德文版沒有翻譯formaliter）完滿。

真理作為此一趨同性，其後果（效應）是理性對事物的認識（cognitio rei）。

所以我們可以得出這樣的發生上的順序：事物的存在性先行於真的理（意義）(entitas rei praecedit rationem veritatis)，認識則又是真理的一個後果（效應）（cognitio est effectus veritatis）。

傳說中的存在先於本質（笑

複製歸伶昌學長，佔地兒：

Prima ergo comparatio entis ad intellectum est ut ens intellectui concordet: quae quidem concordia adaequatio intellectus et rei dicitur; et in hoc formaliter ratio veri perficitur. Hoc est ergo quod addit verum super ens, scilicet conformitatem, sive adaequationem rei et intellectus; ad quam conformitatem, ut dictum est, sequitur cognitio rei. Sic ergo entitas rei praecedit rationem veritatis, sed cognitio est quidam veritatis effectus.

The first reference of being to the intellect, therefore, consists in its agreement with the intellect. This agreement is called 「the conformity of thing and intellect.」 In this conformity is fulfilled the formal constituent of the true, and this is what the true adds to being, namely, the conformity or equation of thing and intellect. As we said, the knowledge of a thing is a consequence of this conformity; therefore, it is an effect of truth, even though the fact that the thing is a being is prior to its truth.

-Thomas Aquinas: Quaestiones disputatae de veritate: English

1、事物的存在性先行於真的理（意義）(entitas rei praecedit rationem veritatis)，

2、認識則又是真理的一個後果（效應）（cognitio est effectus veritatis）。

3、傳說中的存在先於本質（笑

it is an effect of truth, even though the fact that the thing is a being is prior to its truth.這是真理的效果，儘管事物是存在的事實