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    It is not the case that The intellect must have intuitive cognition of extramental sensible objects

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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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    • 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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