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Single Idea 20785

[filed under theme 15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 1. Faculties ]

Full Idea

Some conceptions are conceived on the basis of direct experience, some on the basis of similarity, some on the basis of analogy, some on the basis of transposition, some on the basis of composition, and some on the basis of opposition.

Gist of Idea

Our conceptions arise from experience, similarity, analogy, transposition, composition and opposition

Source

report of Stoic school (fragments/reports [c.200 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 07.52

Book Ref

'The Stoics Reader', ed/tr. Inwood,B/Gerson,L.P. [Hackett 2008], p.13

A Reaction

These are examples of what I think of as 'philosophical faculties', probably not mentioned by either psychologists or neuro-scientists, but seen by philosophers as necessary preconditions for certain basic operations of thought.

Related Idea

Idea 20805 All our concepts come from experience, directly, or by expansion, reduction or compounding [Stoic school, by Sext.Empiricus]

The 20 ideas with the same theme [theory that each distinct capacity has a specific source]:

24061 If we divide the mind up according to its capacities, there are a lot of them [Aristotle]
20204 Whether the mind has parts is irrelevant, since it obviously has distinct capacities [Aristotle]
23906 Courage from spirit is natural and unconquerable, as seen in the young [Aristotle]
20785 Our conceptions arise from experience, similarity, analogy, transposition, composition and opposition [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
21799 We just use the word 'faculty' when we don't know the psychological cause [Galen]
23264 Philosophers think faculties are in substances, and invent a faculty for every activity [Galen]
22107 Sensations are transmitted to 'internal senses' in the brain, chiefly to 'phantasia' and 'imagination' [Aquinas, by Kretzmann/Stump]
24026 Our four knowledge faculties are intelligence, imagination, the senses, and memory [Descartes]
21800 Descartes mentions many cognitive faculties, but reduces them to will and intellect [Descartes, by Schmid]
21804 Faculties are either fictions, or the abstract universals of ideas [Spinoza]
2869 Kant's only answer as to how synthetic a priori judgements are possible was that we have a 'faculty'! [Nietzsche on Kant]
9346 Judgements which are essentially and strictly universal reveal our faculty of a priori cognition [Kant]
5572 Reason has logical and transcendental faculties [Kant]
24145 Mind is a mechanism of abstraction and simplification, aimed at control [Nietzsche]
23191 Minds have an excluding drive to scare things off, and a selecting one to filter facts [Nietzsche]
14868 Our primary faculty is perception of structure, as when looking in a mirror [Nietzsche]
23943 Distinguishing reason from passion is based on an archaic 'faculty' theory [Solomon]
2539 Mental modules for language, social, action, theory, space, emotion [McGinn]
20657 There are 23 core brain functions, with known circuit, transmitters, genes and behaviour [Watson]
22135 Our concepts can never fully capture reality, but simplification does not falsify [Boulter]