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... thing , it is the singular that is first known - intuitive cognition concerns singulars . Abstractive cognition , on the other hand , is not proper to a singular thing , for such a cognition is a concept not peculiar to only one ...
... thing , it is the singular that is first known - intuitive cognition concerns singulars . Abstractive cognition , on the other hand , is not proper to a singular thing , for such a cognition is a concept not peculiar to only one ...
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... thing . How can a singular thing become a universal then ? Clearly only by signification , by being a sign of several things . Ockham approvingly quotes from Avicenna , Metaphysics v : " a universal is a content in the intellect which ...
... thing . How can a singular thing become a universal then ? Clearly only by signification , by being a sign of several things . Ockham approvingly quotes from Avicenna , Metaphysics v : " a universal is a content in the intellect which ...
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... things to be formally distinct but really identical . The basic mode of his argument is : Let ' a " and " b " be the individual differentia and common nature of a thing . Now " a " is not formally distinct from " a " . But " a " is ...
... things to be formally distinct but really identical . The basic mode of his argument is : Let ' a " and " b " be the individual differentia and common nature of a thing . Now " a " is not formally distinct from " a " . But " a " is ...
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A Myth Dream and Night mare in | 1 |
Mindscripts | 21 |
The Exoneration of Oedipus | 37 |
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