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Anthropology

Intellect and knowledge

Human knowledge begins in sense experience, while the intellect abstracts universal intelligible forms from particulars.

Leitfrage

How does the human mind know universal truths through sensible things?

Warum es wichtig ist

Aquinas's account of abstraction connects embodiment, perception, imagination, and intellectual judgment.

Der argumentative Gang

  1. 1Human knowing begins with sensible particulars received through bodily powers.
  2. 2Phantasms provide the material from which the intellect abstracts universal forms.
  3. 3The intellect judges and reasons about universals without being reducible to a bodily organ.