Abstract
The first of the three acts of reason is “the understanding of indivisibles” (indivisibilum intelligentia) or simple apprehension. As already seen, by this act the intellect apprehends the intelligible character (ratio), quiddity, nature, or essence of the object in an absolute manner: “Una duarum operationum intellectus est indivisibilium intelligentia: inquantum scilicet intellectus intelligit absolute cuiusque rei quidditatem sive essentiam per seipsam, puta quid est homo vel quid album vel quid aliud huiusmodi.”2 It is now necessary to examine more fully the meaning of the statement that the quiddity of a thing is grasped by itself (per seipsam) or absolutely.
This chapter has a close affinity with chap. V, “Intentions,” and will presuppose much of what is said there, especially in the sections on “Intelligible Species,” “Intentio Intellecta” and “Knowledge of the Intention.”
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Schmidt, R.W. (1966). The Intention of Universality. In: The Domain of Logic According to Saint Thomas Aquinas. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0939-8_7
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