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] |
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] |