The Ontological Value of Sense-Intuition

Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 6:72-90 (1956)
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IN the preceding section, the immediate contact effected by sense-intuition between a percipient and existents was seen to enfold an epistemological value enabling us to regard this perception as the point of departure, the terminus a quo, of all our knowledge. Here we ask ourselves whether there is a sense in which we may say that this initial intuition is not only the point of departure, but is also the point of resolution for all our knowledge. May we not, to pursue an analogy, consider experience as a terminus ad quem as well as a terminus a quo? The present chapter seeks the solution to this problem principally under the guidance of Aquinas and his interpreters, both classical and modern. However, before taking up the specific question we have just proposed, two more general considerations impose themselves as logically prior.

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