Simple

Apprehension
The Generation of Ideas
The 3 Acts of the Mind
 Simple Apprehension: an operation of the mind
whereby we abstract from the non-essential elements
of a thing and recognize those essential elements
which make it to be precisely that particular thing.
 Judgment: the act by which the intellect affirms or
denies the truth of something, putting together or
dividing apart concepts;
 Reasoning: an operation of the mind that involves a
process whereby from certain truths already known,
we proceed to another which is different from those
that are given but necessarily following from them.
The 3 Acts of the Mind

Mental External
Mental Act
Product Sign
Apprehension Idea Term

Judgment Enunciation Proposition

Reasoning Argument Syllogism

Ideogenesis

 Is the process of idea-formation

 It is based primarily on the principle that
“Nothing enters the mind unless it passes
first through the senses.”
 Knowledge first acquired is sensible
because of the involvement of the
external and internal senses.
 Ideogenesis Diagram
External Senses Internal Senses Intellect

Percepts Active
Sensed Intellect
Data
Estimative
Common Memory
Sense Abstracted
ideas
Imagination Nature

External
Senses

Sensible Phantasm Passive

Impressions Intellect