An idea from Summa Theologica

The joke about angels dancing on the head of a pin came from 17th-century critics of the medieval schools. The real question asks whether two angels can be in one place. Two can’t, because two complete causes can’t each be the whole cause of one thing.

From Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas

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