Perception

Perception
Sku: 48000D0E060
Archival Number: A480 V89
Author: Lonergan, B.
Language(s): English
Decade: 1960
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2 handwritten schematic pp. on relation of perception and judgment, in context of an article by James Collins. Fifth item in Batch V, folder 8, System & History

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48000D0E060

A480

Transcription by Robert M. Doran

Perception

Does it include or exclude true judgment?

include; art. in Revue thomiste, cited by J. Collins

If it excludes, then perception is

either A experience & intelligence (without judgment)

or B experience without intelligence and without judgment

If A rudderless cf Scheler

If B animal

Obj: does not include intelligence or judgment

but it does include α Scotus and Ockham’s

intellectual intuition of existing and present qua existing and present

β or some less clear-headed equivalent.

Resp: such an intuition α does not exist,

β is superfluous,

γ is merely a necessary conclusion

from fact of knowledge

and refusal to consider facts of knowledge

Obj: (exp and insight) qua true though not reflectively known to be true

Resp: = essentialism

judgment as not constitutive element in knowledge

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If perception is supposed to include true judgment

does the word ‘perception’ add anything to the

properties of this totality of true judgments?

If it adds nothing, then my position.

If it adds the reference to a real object

it expresses the conviction that knowing is

not essentially = perfection

not radically an identity in act of knower and known

but essentially a duality of knower and known.

Then (1) Neoplatonist vs. Arist

(2) Aq. I, 14, 2

(3) Scotus – formal distinction

(4) Deduction of Verbum divinum (Günther, Rosmini)

Dices ratione in Deo distinguuntur Deus cognoscens et Deus cognitus

ratione vera N, falsa C