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The document discusses the nature of concepts and ideas as mental expressions of the essence of things, emphasizing the role of the intellect in understanding and forming judgments. It outlines the process of idea formation, starting from sensory perception to abstraction, and highlights the importance of memory in retaining these ideas. Additionally, it references Aristotle's ten categories of predicaments that help describe the essence of things.

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Business Logic Reviewer-10

The document discusses the nature of concepts and ideas as mental expressions of the essence of things, emphasizing the role of the intellect in understanding and forming judgments. It outlines the process of idea formation, starting from sensory perception to abstraction, and highlights the importance of memory in retaining these ideas. Additionally, it references Aristotle's ten categories of predicaments that help describe the essence of things.

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THE MEANING OF CONCEPT OR IDEA INTELLECT (MIND)

A concept or idea is the mental expression of an essence The seat of idea, something immaterial and phantasm or
(quiddity) of a thing. sense image is something material. A phantasm is not
proportionate to the immaterial intellect.
It is the product that simple apprehension produces
within the mind as a means of knowing the essence of a To become actually intelligible, the phantasm has to be
thing. dematerialized, stripped of its material conditions
(accidents)
Ideas are the building stones of knowledge. Man makes
judgments, and judgments either expresses a truth or an ABSTRACTION
error.
Abstrahere To separate or to move away
Ideas are the elements that constitute the judgment we
form in our mind, therefore they (ideas) are the A mental act by which the process of thinking studies the
foundation of knowledge. physical characteristics with regard to its color, size,
material, etc. in order to think of the purpose of an object
FORMATION OF IDEAS ( TABULA RASA)
ATTENTION

Man’s first contact with the reality around him is Mental act by which the process of thinking fixes its
through the senses (the windows of his being) consideration upon on particular object after having
sense it. Driving a car – need full attention
SENSES are the window that gives us the idea on an
object MENTAL REFLEX ACTIVITY (reflection)

SENSE IMAGE – PHANTASM A mental act of having aware of an act itself so that it
looks things objectively, having differences between the
The image or representation of a thing formed in our 2 given arguments (face of man and face of cat)
mind. It is the first step in the formation of ideas
COMPARISON
Our phantasm always provides us all the sensible
differences we can find in things around us, thus it is Mental act by which the process of thinking notices
particular, concrete and bears with accidental similarities and differences in the object having the same
elements. essence with the same geneses or classes. (Angela and
Monkey. Both essence but angela is rational animal and
The 10 Categories of Predicaments monkey is brute
according to ARISTOTLE
COMPREHENSION
Predicaments to describe a thing
1. Quantity The sum total of the intelligible elements of the quiddity
2. Quality (whatness) signified by the term or concept.
3. Relation These intelligible elements are referred to as notes,
4. Action which include basic elements that a thing has and what
5. Passion ever is deductible from the basic elements
6. Time
7. Posture/ Space MEMORY
8. Where/Place
After Phantasm and the idea have been formed, they are
9. Habit
then passed into a mental storage called the memory.
10. Substance
Once in the memory, the idea stays permanently.
Later on we have to remove these predicament and
retain only the ESSENCE That is why we can have recollections of things we
know previously, for every idea that we have leaves an
imprint in our mind.

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