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Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Buch: Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas Titel: Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas Stichwort: Compositio: im Ding, im inneren und äußeren Wort; Wahrheit als Synthese im Geist und Ding Kurzinhalt: Sokrates ist ein Mann; truth is not merely the subjective, mental synthesis. It is the correspondence between mental and real synthesis; incomplexa erkannt als complex und inversely Textausschnitt: there is the real composition in things themselves; there is the composition of inner words in the mind; there is the composition of outer words in speech and writing. The last of these three is obvious:
... However, there is no doubt about the existence of an inner composition: ... Finally, the ground and cause of the composition that occurs in the mind and in speech is a real composition in the thing. Thus, the proposition 'Socrates is a man' has its ground and cause in the composition of a human form with the individual matter of Socrates; the proposition 'Socrates is white' has its ground and cause in the composition of a real accident 'whiteness' with a real subject 'Socrates.'
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The one point to be noted here is that truth is not merely the subjective, mental synthesis. It is the correspondence between mental and real synthesis. More accurately, in our knowledge of composite things, truth is the correspondence of mental composition with real composition or of mental division with real division; falsity is the noncorrespondence of mental composition to real division or of mental division to real composition.
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But besides our knowledge of composite substances there are three other cases in which the foregoing account of truth suffers modal variations: in our knowledge of simple substances the incomplexa are known complexe; inversely, when simple substances know composite objects, the complexe are known incomplexe; finally, in the self-knowledge of the absolutely simple substance, knowing and known are an identity, and so truth can be named a correspondence in that case only by the artifice of a double negation ____________________________
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