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Single Idea 22130
[filed under theme 11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 1. Perceptual Realism / b. Direct realism
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Full Idea
Scotus allocated to the intellect a direct, existential awareness of the intelligible object, called 'intuitive cognition', in contrast to abstractive knowledge, which seized the object independently of its presence to the intellect in actual existence.
Gist of Idea
Scotus defended direct 'intuitive cognition', against the abstractive view
Source
report of John Duns Scotus (works [1301]) by Stephen D. Dumont - Duns Scotus p.206
Book Ref
'Shorter Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy', ed/tr. Craig,Edward [Routledge 2005], p.206
A Reaction
Presumably if you see a thing, shut your eyes and then know it, that is 'abstractive'. Scotus says open your eyes for proper knowledge.
The
16 ideas
with the same theme
[we are in direct contact with reality]:
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21337
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A knowing being possesses a further reality, the 'presence' of the thing known
[Aquinas]
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22130
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Scotus defended direct 'intuitive cognition', against the abstractive view
[Duns Scotus, by Dumont]
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3943
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If existence is perceived directly, by which sense; if indirectly, how is it inferred from direct perception?
[Berkeley]
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23662
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The existence of ideas is no more obvious than the existence of external objects
[Reid]
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14866
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It always remains possible that the world just is the way it appears
[Nietzsche]
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21537
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I assume we perceive the actual objects, and not their 'presentations'
[Russell]
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5377
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'Acquaintance' is direct awareness, without inferences or judgements
[Russell]
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22160
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Our relationship to a hammer strengthens when we use
[Heidegger]
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5678
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Scientific direct realism says we know some properties of objects directly
[Dancy,J]
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5681
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Maybe we are forced from direct into indirect realism by the need to explain perceptual error
[Dancy,J]
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6549
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I think greenness is a complex microphysical property of green objects
[Lycan]
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6355
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Direct realism says justification is partly a function of pure perceptual states, not of beliefs
[Pollock/Cruz]
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6643
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'Ecological' approaches say we don't infer information, but pick it up directly from reality
[Lowe]
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19526
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Surely I am acquainted with physical objects, not with appearances?
[Williamson]
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16374
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There is a continuum from acquaintance to description in knowledge, depending on the link
[Recanati]
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8417
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Direct realism is false, because defeasibility questions are essential to perceptual knowledge
[Galloway]
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