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    The intellect must have intuitive cognition of extramenta... — Carmelics
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    The intellect must have intuitive cognition of extramental sensible objects

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    • 1.We can cognize extramental sensible objects intellectually as existing
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    • 2.We can form propositions about extramental sensible objects and use such propositions in syllogisms
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    • 3.Forming a proposition such as 'This flower is red' requires the contents of that proposition to be in the intellect, not merely in the sense
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    • 1.Abstractive cognition of universals is sufficient for intellectual proposition-formation without any direct intuition of existing particulars.
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    • 2.Ockham argues that intellectual cognition of 'This flower is red' requires only abstractive species plus memory, not present intuitive contact with the extramental object.
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    • 3.If abstractive cognition alone can yield propositional content, the inference from proposition-formation to intuitive intellection of extramental objects is invalid.
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    • 1.Sensory systems can fully account for the registration of present existence and contingent fact without requiring a parallel intellectual intuitive faculty.
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    • 2.Aquinas holds that the intellect operates exclusively on abstracted intelligible species, leaving all direct contact with existing singulars to the sensitive powers and the cogitative faculty.
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    • 3.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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    Intellectual intuitive cognition has two different kinds of objects: extramental sensible objects and the soul’s own acts. (Scotus comes around to affirming the possibility of such cognition of extramental objects in his later works, having denied it earlier in his career; he is consistent about the possibility of intuitive cognition of the soul’s acts. See Cross 2014, 43–64, on whom I draw thoughout this section.) We must have intuitive cognition of extramental objects because we can cognize th
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