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Ideas for 'The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics', 'Logic (Port-Royal Art of Thinking)' and 'Quodlibeta'

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11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

22170	Senses grasp external properties, but the understanding grasps the essential natures of things [Aquinas]
	Full Idea: Our imagination and senses grasp only the outer properties of things, not their natures. ...Understanding, however, grasps the very substance and nature of things, so that what is represented in understanding is a likeness of thing's very essence.
	From: Thomas Aquinas (Quodlibeta [1267], 8.2.2)
	A reaction: This is exactly the picture I endorse for modern science. Explanation is the path to understanding, and that must venture beyond immediate experience.

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism

21958	Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW]
	Full Idea: Appearances in general are nothing outside our representations, which is just what we mean by transcendental ideality.
	From: A.W. Moore (The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics [2012], B535/A507)