“It is that among other distinctions possible among symbols, an indispensable one is that between indicative and quiddative symbols.”

“The defense is to claim that there are two sorts of concepts possible of a substance, quidditative concepts, which are captured in the real definition, and concepts that express the quiddity only confusedly.”

“The concept of being is a quidditative notion that indicates the aptitude to exist and that is univocally predicated of God and creature, without – and this is the major innovation here – positing a reality common to them.”

“Since the concept can never yield full quidditative knowledge of God then Aquinas must insist that we are joined to God quasi ignoto.”