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cf., SCG1.C47; QDeVer.Q2.A2; CT.BookI.C30; Metaph.Bk12.L11; LibCaus.L13
The next three articles (A. 2-4) concerns the primary object of Divine Intellection.
The sense of this question is "whether God knows Himself through Himself?"
In this, we are asking whether there is a duality of subject and object in the knowledge of God. This is what lead the Neo-Platonists to deny intelligence in the One God and leave it off for the Second Hypostasis.