writer meant to say. But he has occasional lapses from his own standard.” (p. 101) The Thomistic notion of the simultaneous interplay among the senses is as unvisualizable as analogical proportionality: β€œSt. Thomas, perfecting the tentative efforts of his predecessors, has supplied a theory of the relations between the senses which lays the stress on the literal interpretation, now defined as the full meaning of the author.” (p. 368)