[MD] Metaphysics and the mystic.

[Joseph Maurer]

Hi Mark and All,,

How do we know things? Has been a metaphysical question from the get-go.  I
don't remember how Socrates dealt with that.  Plato proposed a world of
ideas that we contact...Aristotle proposed that the mind abstracts the
essence from the image of the thing in the imagination and gives the
abstraction an intentional existence in the mind to manipulate as ideas.
Voila! Knowledge!  Aquinas ran with that definition of abstraction.  This is
how I remember the metaphysics I studied 65 years ago.

On 1/29/12 12:25 PM, "118" <ununoctiums at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am not sure what you mean by "intellectual abstraction".