| ### QUESTION 85 ### OF THE MODE AND ORDER OF UNDERSTANDING ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We come now to consider the mode and order of understanding. Under this head there are eight points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether our intellect understands by abstracting the species from the phantasms? #### (2) Whether the intelligible species abstracted from the phantasms are what our intellect understands, or that whereby it understands? #### (3) Whether our intellect naturally first understands the more universal? #### (4) Whether our intellect can know many things at the same time? #### (5) Whether our intellect understands by the process of composition and division? #### (6) Whether the intellect can err? #### (7) Whether one intellect can understand better than another? #### (8) Whether our intellect understands the indivisible before the divisible? ####  |