[throw0101a]

> It is a joke based on Aquinas' style of answering questions.

This wasn't particular to Aquinas, but fairly common among Scholastics:

* https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/41999/what-is-th...

In some ways you're trying to steel man (as opposed to straw man) the opposing arguments. It was a reflection of the oral debating style used in universities at the time.

[guerrilla]

Strange that that answer doesn't include the fact that they were heavily influenced by Aristotle (who had just been rediscovered by Europeans) who explicitely recommended doing this.