quest, one has to assume that the truth of things is knowable. This philosophical assumption, Pieper notes, leads to God. Pieper’s reasoning is as follows: if there is no Mind behind the things that exist, we could not rightly assume that things are actually intelligible to mind. Without a creative Mind, from where could intelligible order, which is so evident in things, come? Pieper concludes that it is “impossible to deny categorically, on the one hand, the rootedness of all things in the thought