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Intellect
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Aquinas says the intellect is never deceived about what a thing is, only in judging. What does that mean?
My senior students are reading a little of the Summa with me, and one passage stopped us. In the first part, where Aquinas asks whether falsity is in the intellect (question 17), he says something like this, following Aristotle: just as the…
Started by Ikechukwu Anyanwu3 replies -
Ibn Sina argued that the intellect cannot reside in any body. Which premise would a materialist reject?
With so many threads about machine minds, it seems worth bringing out one of the oldest arguments against them, although Ibn Sina was not thinking of machines. In the psychology of the Shifāʾ (Book V of the part on the soul, chapter…
Started by Layla Sfeir4 replies