Fourth Way
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The Fourth Way is one of Thomas Aquinas’s classic arguments for the existence of God, reasoning from the gradation of perfections in things to a supreme, maximally perfect being.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fourth Way canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17021369 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fourth Way Context triple: [Five Ways, hasArgument, Fourth Way]
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A.
Fifth Way
The Fifth Way is Thomas Aquinas’s teleological argument for the existence of God, which infers a divine intelligence from the apparent order and purpose in nature.
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B.
The Third Way
The Third Way is a political philosophy book by sociologist Anthony Giddens that outlines a centrist, modernized social democracy intended to adapt left-of-center politics to contemporary globalized societies.
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C.
Party of Hope
The Party of Hope was a short-lived Japanese conservative political party formed in 2017 as a reformist alternative to the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
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D.
Third Way politics
Third Way politics is a centrist political ideology that blends elements of left-wing social justice and right-wing economic liberalism, often associated with late-20th-century leaders like Bill Clinton and Tony Blair.
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E.
Alliance of the New Citizen
Alliance of the New Citizen was a Slovak centrist-liberal political party active in the early 2000s.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fourth Way Target entity description: The Fourth Way is one of Thomas Aquinas’s classic arguments for the existence of God, reasoning from the gradation of perfections in things to a supreme, maximally perfect being.
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A.
Fifth Way
The Fifth Way is Thomas Aquinas’s teleological argument for the existence of God, which infers a divine intelligence from the apparent order and purpose in nature.
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B.
The Third Way
The Third Way is a political philosophy book by sociologist Anthony Giddens that outlines a centrist, modernized social democracy intended to adapt left-of-center politics to contemporary globalized societies.
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C.
Party of Hope
The Party of Hope was a short-lived Japanese conservative political party formed in 2017 as a reformist alternative to the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
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D.
Third Way politics
Third Way politics is a centrist political ideology that blends elements of left-wing social justice and right-wing economic liberalism, often associated with late-20th-century leaders like Bill Clinton and Tony Blair.
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E.
Alliance of the New Citizen
Alliance of the New Citizen was a Slovak centrist-liberal political party active in the early 2000s.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.