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
Impressed Specie
Terminus ad quo (starting point)
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!)