Positing intellectual intuitive cognition duplicates the causal role already assigned to sensation, violating the principle that explanatory entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.
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The act by which the I establishes or asserts being — both its own being and, through limitation, the being of the non-I
principle of parsimony(Feigl 1967, p. 94)
A scientifically well-established principle that opposes speaking of two or more concepts when the evidential facts, though completely correlated, are qualitatively heterogeneous
sensation(Used by Amo to argue that sensation is incompatible with the purely active nature of the mind.)
A purely passive reception of sensory information.