Technometry

Ames defines  type as things created and ruled by God or (secondarily) things created or conceived by humans in imitation of God. Type is "that in which all art shines and from which its principles, which produce human understanding, are gathered by man." God creates a thing, and from it shines arts and principles which help us to understand the arts and the thing itself. Then we use the arts to imitatively create and these works of creation bring glory to God. To understand this further, I recommend the illustrations in this article by David Hill Scott: http://www.leaderu.com/aip/docs/scott.html Theses 50-54 deal with metaphysics. Ames attacks scholastic metaphysics and he makes a logical case that the field of metaphysics was overstepping its rightful bounds ("put its sickle into a harvest not its own").  He says that the arts themselves, and by implication his theory of technometry, ought to replace much of metaphysics' stolen ground. He also has a long