Scotus on Intuitive and Abstractive Cognition

In Hause Jeffrey P. (ed.), Medieval Philosophy: Essential Readings and Contemporary Responses. Routledge. pp. 348-365 (2014)
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How should we understand intuitive cognition? Duns Scotus held that we have intuitive cognition only when objects cause our knowledge without any causal intermediary; if an intelligible species caused our knowledge, it would be abstractive cognition. Compared to abstractive cognition, intuitive cognition is the paradigmatic case of knowledge; by contrast, abstractive cognition is only a "second best."

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