Combining Texts

Ideas for 'works', 'Metaphysics' and 'Rules for the Direction of the Mind'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     choose another area for these texts

display all the ideas for this combination of texts

---

5 ideas

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 8. Brain

24027

Nerves and movement originate in the brain, where imagination moves them [Descartes]

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

24026

Our four knowledge faculties are intelligence, imagination, the senses, and memory [Descartes]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 5. Generalisation by mind

9088	Skill comes from a general assumption obtained from thinking about similar things [Aristotle]

16153

Aristotle distinguishes two different sorts of generality - kinds, and properties [Aristotle, by Frede,M]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 6. Idealisation

9791	Science is more accurate when it is prior and simpler, especially without magnitude or movement [Aristotle]