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cause human has a natural disposition to interpret symptoms, or because human has a natural disposition to understand the canine language?
4. Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas will not distance himself from Boethius's classification: his will only become a more complex taxonomy. He deals with the problem in more than one page of his commentary on De Interpretatione and with some ambiguities. The Thomistic classification echoes various influences. In some passages Aquinas, along Augustinian lines, calls signum every vox significativa, in some other passages signum is quoted also as the sound of a military trumpet (tuba) which, evidently,
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