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Ideas for 'works', 'The Pragmatist Account of Truth' and 'Rules for the Direction of the Mind'

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15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 1. Faculties

24026	Our four knowledge faculties are intelligence, imagination, the senses, and memory [Descartes]
	Full Idea: There are four faculties in us which we can use to know: intelligence, imagination, the senses, and memory.
	From: René Descartes (Rules for the Direction of the Mind [1628], 12)
	A reaction: Philosophers have to attribute faculties to the mind, even if the psychologists and neuroscientists won't accept them. We must infer the sources of our modes of understanding. He is cautious about imagination.