
HoP 272 - A Close Shave - Ockham’s Nominalism
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The Difference Between Intuitive and Abstractive Cognition
In Aristotelian science, each particular human is capable of reason. Thinking about the nature of humans doesn't involve judging that there are any humans. Seeing Groucho counts as an intuition of Groucho because it was caused by him. God could give someone intuitive cognition of something that is not really present.
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