IDEOGENESIS

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IDEOGENESIS  SCHEMA

KNOWLEDGE KNOWLEDGE

SENSITIVE KNOWLEDGE

Object

Impressed specie  Terminus ad quo (starting point) e.g.

INTELLECTIVE KNOWLEDGE

5 External Senses

4 Internal Senses

Function

Ends

Individuating Notes

3. Touch

To see To hear To feel

Colors Sound Texture

4. Taste 5. Smell

To taste To smell

Flavor Odor

(e.g. red) (e.g. n.a.) (e.g. smooth, round) (e.g. sweet) (e.g. fragrant, pleasant)

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1. Sight 2. Hearing

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2.

3.

4.

Common Sense - Collects all individuating individuating notes Memory - Retained the indiviuating notes Imagination a. Reproductive Im. - Reproduces the image of the object perceived by the senses b. Creative Im. - Creates a new image based from the images of the objects perceived by the senses Vis Estimativa - Movements:

PHANTASM 

Expressed Specie

Terminus ad quiem (Endpoint) Endpoint of sensitive knowledge

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Impressed Specie

Terminus ad quo (starting point)

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Active Inteligens Function: Abstraction Abstract or remove individuating notes from the phantasm

Passive Intelligens 

Function: Contemplation Contemplates upon the abstracted reality being abstracted by the A.I. (active intelliigens) Names the abstracted reality

IDEA Expressed specie Terminus ad quiem Endpoint of I.K. a.k.a. Intentional form of the object perceived by the senses e.g. an apple

 Good Object  – 

towards it  Bad Object  –  moves   moves

away from it or attacks it

Note: For an idea to be true, it should conform, with the object being perceived by the senses

Conclusion: “There’s nothing in the intellect unless it passes through the senses” (This is St. Thomas’s principle of education!)