Error in OCE?

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The OCE page on species gives the following quotation:
“Cognitio contingit secundum quod cognitum est in cognoscente” (St. Thomas, “Contra gentiles”, II, c. lxxvii and xeviii).
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(oce.catholic.com/index.php?title=Species)

I can’t find this in the referenced sections of the Summa Contra Gentiles, but is is very similar to ST I.12.4 :
“Cognitio enim contingit secundum quod cognitum est in cognoscente.” (ST I.12.4)
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Does anyone know what’s going on here?
 
AndrewW94 said:
The OCE page on species gives the following quotation:

(oce.catholic.com/index.php?title=Species)

I can’t find this in the referenced sections of the Summa Contra Gentiles, but is is very similar to ST I.12.4 :

Does anyone know what’s going on here?
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I couldn’t find it either. Over the past four hundred years or so many copies of both Summas were made and who can tell which is more faithful to the original. Apparently that is the source of the discrepancy. However I found a near identical quotation in A Latin-English Dictionary of Thomas Aquinas, by Roy J. Deferrari, St. Paul Editions, paper back, 1960, pg 167, half way down, left hand column, under cognito.

My loose translation would be, " Knowledge occurs according as what is known is in the knower. " This is not to be taken literally. It simply means that when what actually exists outside the mind agrees with what we know about it or corresponds to what we know about it, then we have true knowledge. I.E., we know the object as it exists outside the mind.

I would just look for that sort of rendering in the English text of the S.C.G. and go from there.

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