OF THE MODE AND ORDER OF UNDERSTANDING
(In Eight Articles)
We come now to consider the mode and order of understanding. Under
this head there are eight points of inquiry:
(1) Whether our intellect understands by abstracting the species from
the phantasms?
(2) Whether the intelligible species abstracted from the phantasms are
what our intellect understands, or that whereby it understands?
(3) Whether our intellect naturally first understands the more
universal?
(4) Whether our intellect can know many things at the same time?
(5) Whether our intellect understands by the process of composition
and division?
(6) Whether the intellect can err?
(7) Whether one intellect can understand better than another?
(8) Whether our intellect understands the indivisible before the
divisible?
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