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Thomas Aquinas on Knowledge of other Minds Ramazan ERTURK ? Abstract This paper investigates how Thomas Aquinas, who is regarded to be the top representative/proponent of the mediavel Christian thought, understands and solves the problem of ‘knowledge of other minds’, which is accepted to be an important problem of contemporary philosopy of mind. Accordingly, Thomas, who is an Aristotelian realist at the same time, thinks that our knowledge of other minds is acquired by way of an analogical inference based on our sensory knowled