Autor: Liddy, Richard M.

Buch: Transforming Light

Titel: Transforming Light

Stichwort: Irrtum, Erkenntnis, Urteil, Intuitionismus

Kurzinhalt: Problem des Irrtums, Keeler, Kausalursache, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Suarez, Scotus, Thomas, virtuell Unbedingtes,

Textausschnitt: () For if we are looking for the formal cause of knowledge, that cause cannot be just things themselves. For if this were the case, false knowledge could never be generated - unless perhaps things themselves were false.
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Descartes realized that there was a problem of error and so introduced epistemology or the science of the criteria of truth. However, by reducing judgment to will he contributed little to solving the problem. Nor can Hume's pure phenomenalism explain error - unless the phenomena contradict themselves. Nor can Kantianism explain error since 'the immutable laws of mind' can only bring forth the same fruit, in no way any contradictions.
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... that for St. Thomas the apprehension of a nexus is one thing, the act of assent is another; the former dwelling in the purely intelligible world, the latter affirming the objective existence of the intellectual content. ... On the other hand, when a proposition is present to the mind without full evidence, the way is open for the undue influence of the will.
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A complexus of terms is appearing in the analysis of judgment: the prior need for evidence and for understanding the sufficiency of the evidence; the need not to be too 'precipitous' in judging; the possibilities of the undue influence of imagination, desire and bad will on judgment.
() .. that the young Lonergan is convinced that knowledge of existence does not take place through a simple apprehension or intuition. In fact, he speaks later of his need at this time to break with 'intuitionism.'