«Intelligere formaliter solum connotat aliquid ut apparens». Peter Auriol on the Nature of the Cognitive Act

Journal title RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA
Author/s Giacomo Fornasieri
Publishing Year 2021 Issue 2021/1
Language French Pages 26 P. 24-49 File size 230 KB
DOI 10.3280/SF2021-001002
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Although Auriol’s philosophical psychology has received increasing attention among contemporary scholars in medieval philosophy, his use of connotation has gone largely unnoticed. The aim of this paper is to delve into Auriol’s definition of cognition as a connotation. In his view, cognizing is nothing more than making things appear to the mind. Each concept is the extra-mental particular plus its property of being cognized by or appearing to the mind. It is nothing other than a real individual co-signifying or connoting its being conceived. Being thought as a connotation, then, for Auriol intellectual cognition ultimately describes the following experience: the appearance of something to and its conscious reception by a cognizer

Keywords: Auriol, intellectual cognition, intentionality, connotation, apparent being

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Giacomo Fornasieri, «Intelligere formaliter solum connotat aliquid ut apparens». Peter Auriol on the Nature of the Cognitive Act in "RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA" 1/2021, pp 24-49, DOI: 10.3280/SF2021-001002