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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 Ref
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.