PHIL1090 Lecture Notes - Fetus, Posterior Analytics, Syllogism
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Inductive reasoning knowing the universal cause from it particular effects . Deductive reasoning deducing the particular effects from known universal cause . Whole world is potentially intelligible but doesn"t mean anything until mind deduces from what is potentially intelligible to actually intelligible. The phantasm (sense particular) vs the intelligible species (universal concept) Being (ens), and the to be of things (esse) Locating the aim of ethics in virtue and happiness (not physical pleasure) and not in terms of consequences or law. Object of faith and objects of reason: the things that can be known by each . Possibility #1: all f"s are r"s but not all r"s are f"s. Possibility #2: all r"s are f"s but not all f"s are r"s. Can use reason for those who try to disprove them. There are some things only reason can prove. De fide revealed theology, things reason cannot grasp. Reasoning is expressed in the form of an argument .
