What do you believe comes first: the knowledge of self, the knowledge of intelligible objects, or the knowledge of being and non-being? Do you believe, for instance, that a person first knows reality, and its opposition to non-reality (implicitly, of course), and then later, by reflecting on his or her act of knowledge, the intellect comes to know the existence of that knowing act and its thinking subject, and thus he or she comes to know the existence of this "chair" or that "bed", seized by his or her senses.
In other words, do you believe that in intellective knowledge, the universal comes first, and that sense is restricted to the individual and particular?
2007-07-23
06:23:34
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