Lexicon of Arguments

 

Chisholm II 267
Ontology/Brentano/Hedwig: Brentano's ontlogy is "sober": there are only "things" that are presented and recognized as "being".
Hedwig: precisely for this reason, it is surprising that Brentano calls fiction "useful" and "convenient" and "practical". >Fictions.
II 268
Brentano: must concede a rethink to the Copernican who speaks Ptolemaic. For Brentano, the difference that arises here is closed by thinking, the "noetic consciousness". There is no sensual evidence.
VsBrentano: the strength of this epistemology is also its weakness: sensory perception falls under the rule of a epistemological option. >Sensory impressions.
Brentano: (already early): Mind and inner perception are to be evaluated completely analogously. (Vs Thomas Aquinas).
VsBrentano: Question: To what extent can the genetic origin of an idea motivated by an emotion be brought in itself epistemologically and made evident by this idea?
Brentano cannot do this, even if he refers back to the evidence of secondary consciousness. That is, that the psychic appears to be preceded by a field of affects which remains dark and cannot be recognized in itself,
II 269
but only in its effect on the act of cognition. >Cognition.
II 271
Ontology/Brentano: Being is synonymous with thing.


Chisholm II = Klaus Hedwig Brentano und Kopernikus in Philosophische Ausätze zu Ehren Roderick M. Chisholm Marian David/Leopold Stubenberg (Hg), Amsterdam 1986