Single Idea 24026

[catalogued under 15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 1. Faculties]

Full Idea

There are four faculties in us which we can use to know: intelligence, imagination, the senses, and memory.

Gist of Idea

Our four knowledge faculties are intelligence, imagination, the senses, and memory

Source

René Descartes (Rules for the Direction of the Mind [1628], 12)

Book Reference

Descartes,René: 'Rules for the Direction of the Mind' [Newcomb Library 2023], p.34


A Reaction

Philosophers have to attribute faculties to the mind, even if the psychologists and neuroscientists won't accept them. We must infer the sources of our modes of understanding. He is cautious about imagination.