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Reason Is Intrinsically Spiritual
- Human reason is intrinsically spiritual because the intellect abstracts immaterial forms from sensed reality.
- This intellectual grasp of order directs the mind toward God as the ultimate source of intelligibility.
The Goliath Problem And The Rock
- Fr. Cajetan uses the rock example to show how the intellect abstracts the essence of things from sense data.
- He calls the problem of matter entering the mind the "Goliath problem" to illustrate dematerialization.
From Senses To Universal Truth
- Knowledge begins in sense experience and the intellect forms universals by abstraction.
- Truth is the correspondence of mind with reality, enabling discursive movement from known to unknown.