"est . . . fides cognitio aenigmatica."
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae I-II.67.5.Praet. 1. Cf. the Resp.: "faith is of the same genus, namely knowledge, as the beatific vision [(fides . . . cum visione patriae convenit in genere, quod est cognitio, faith comes together with the visio patriae in the genus cognition)]."
But note the "But"! For this is an impressively difficult Resp. And most especially, "when you remove a specific difference, the substance of the genus does not remain identically the same".

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