Phoenix and Turtle: The Unity of Knowing and Being

abstraction affirmation analysis appear appetite argument Aristotle assent attempt coherence commonsense concept consciousness convictions critical realism criticism Descartes doctrine dogmatism doubt enquiry entities environment epistemological essence eternal everything evidence existence experience fact feel fideism forms human mind ideal ideas images indirect realism intellectual intelligibility judgement less living logical look mathematical meaning ment mental mentalist merely meta metaphysician metaphysics movement mystery naive realism nature necessity non-being non-mental nothingness notion object ourselves perception perhaps philosophical realism philosophy physical Plato position positivism possessed possible premisses present principle principle of contradiction principle of identity problem of knowledge psychological purely question rational reality reason reference reflection religion says St Thomas scepticism scholastics scientific sensation sense sensibility spirit St Augustine subjectivism Summa Theologica supposed synoptic science theoretical theory things thomist thought tion transcendental tree true truth ultimate words