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The Stanford Encyclopedia publishes a citable public entry on Aquinas

A secular encyclopedia entry is a different access path from a diocesan HTML Summa. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

Sources: [1][2]

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The dated carrier is plato.stanford.edu.

Context

A secular encyclopedia entry is a different access path from a diocesan HTML Summa. Both can be used in classrooms.

Thomas Aquinas is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

A SEP entry is a scholarly access path, not a papal act.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Thomas Aquinas

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.16 · verified

    Named Dominican master as heading of later editions and papal acts. Printers, popes, and editors publish the instrument.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — Saint Thomas AquinasEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — AquinasStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

SEP’s Aquinas entry, first published in the encyclopedia’s early years and revised since, is a completed public-philosophy instrument independent of New Advent.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Confidence is stated on the impact path.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorThomas Aquinas
  2. contributed toFactThe Stanford Encyclopedia publishes a citable public entry on Aquinas
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). The Stanford Encyclopedia publishes a citable public entry on Aquinas. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/aq-sep-aquinas-entry

https://factrail.ai/facts/aq-sep-aquinas-entry

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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