By David Carlin, The Catholic Thing - We humans, as the old philosophers told us, are rational animals. And if rational, then logical. And if logical, then it follows that if we accept a certain premise or set of premises, we are logically bound to accept all the conclusions that follow... We are not, however, purely rational and logical. If we were, we’d be like the angels as described by St. Thomas Aquinas: bodiless intellects. ...