 The diversity of these two positions stems from this, that some, in order to seek the truth about the nature of things, have proceeded from intelligible reasons, and this was the particular characteristic of the Platonists. Some, however, have proceeded from sensible things, and this was the particular characteristic of the philosophy of Aristotle, as Simplicius says in his commentary Upon the Categories. (Thomas Aquinas, De Spiritualibus creaturis 3.40.275–282, as quoted in Hankey 2002: n. 46)