Abelard's Philosophy of Mind and Cognition
• Abelard's philosophy of mind is Aristotelian, but his knowledge of Aristotle is limited.
• He echoed Aristotelian claims, such as sensation being of and through bodies, but rejected core Aristotelian claims.
• He rejected the theory that cognition involves the formal identity between the mind and the object understood.
• He denied the view that cognition is the formation of representations of the object cognized.
• Abelard's paradigm of cognition includes three steps: sensation, imagination, and understanding.
• Sensation is a power of the mind, imagination supplements it, and understanding is an act of understanding.
• Understanding is not the object of cognition or knowledge, but the habit of having accurate acts of understanding something.
• Abelard's philosophy of mind is Aristotelian, but his knowledge of Aristotle is limited.
• He echoed Aristotelian claims, such as sensation being of and through bodies, but rejected core Aristotelian claims.
• He rejected the theory that cognition involves the formal identity between the mind and the object understood.
• He denied the view that cognition is the formation of representations of the object cognized.
• Abelard's paradigm of cognition includes three steps: sensation, imagination, and understanding.
• Sensation is a power of the mind, imagination supplements it, and understanding is an act of understanding.
• Understanding is not the object of cognition or knowledge, but the habit of having accurate acts of understanding something.
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