[Serious] Thomism: Then & Now

[DLJ]

the essence is not in the thing, it's in the reading/reader of the thing.

What argument do you use to demonstrate that this is true?

Hmmm. Good question. I'm not sure what to call it.

Maybe...
Argument from Pattern Recognition or
Argument from 'Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder' or
Argument from Reification Error or simply
Argument from Information Theory?

Anyway, if I'm understanding it correctly from video (I admit there's a high chance that I'm not), Aquinas seems to have correctly realised that the information patterns referred to as 'properties' can be identified both/similarly from things that do not exist (i.e. imaginary / virtual / fictional things) as from things that do exist (physically).

So, credit where it's due for that.

But then there seems to be an attempt to associate ("bring together") these information patterns with the existing-things themselves rather than associating the information patterns with the reader/interpreter of the existing-things.

Seems like a non sequitur.

Ah! They you go... Argument from Non Sequitur.