LGCT-Chapter-1-Lesson-6
LGCT-Chapter-1-Lesson-6
CHAPTER 1
LESSON 6
THE MATERIAL AND
FORMAL OBJECTS OF
LOGIC
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MATERIAL OBJECT
The thing or entity which science deals with in
order for the science to achieve its formal object
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FORMAL OBJECT
The immediate aim of a particular science
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LOGIC
“seeks to achieve correctness in the process of
thinking (formal object) through mental operation
(materials objects)”
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MENTAL OPERATIONS (Material Object)
+ Simple Apprehension
+ Judgement
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+ Reasoning
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REASONING
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SIMPLE APPREHENSION
Refers to the act of the mind as it apprehends or
grasps a particular entity or reality
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JUDGEMENT
The act of the mind through which two ideas are
compared in terms of their relation, whether they
are in agreement or disagreement with each
other, this is called “proposition”
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REASONING
Act of the mind through which the mind abstracts
(Latin “abstrare” = “”to draw) to infer a specific
judgement tacitly contained in other judgements,
this is called “inference or argument”
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MENTAL EXPRESSIONS
OPERATIONS LOGICAL ISSUES
PRODUCTS (EXTERNAL SIGN)
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consists of grasping the meaning of an idea or operation
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this begins when the intellect ignores or extracts the
accidental differential qualities of a thing, focuses on the
characteristics essential and common to all members of a
class or group. This is called IDEOGENESIS, the intellectual
evolution of concept
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REALITY – the sum of all existing individual beings whether
material or spiritual
- consists of all real things, actual facts, material
objects
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FACULTY OPERATION PRODUCT
SENSE
SENSATION
KNOWLEDGE
SENSE SENSE IMAGE
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FACULTY OPERATION PRODUCT
INTERNAL SENSE
IMAGINATION
KNOWLEDGE
IMAGINATION PHANTASM
SIMPLE INTELLECTUAL
No material image
APPREHENSION KNOWLEDGE
INTELLECT
Imagination – the process of forming pictures in the material organic faculty of things