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Logic IV. 19.
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classical and new Testament word for conscience) synesis (which Plato derives from [?] together but Aristotle implicitly from [?] to apprehend meaning) gnome, eugnomosyne, etc. The five terms [?][?][?][?][?] of which the two first and two last were in common use among the scholastics from Albertus magnus [?] are carefully descibed by Aristotle in the 6th book of the Nicomachean Ethico chapters ix-xii. Only the last two need be considered here. Synesis is not a very frequent work. In Aristotle it is applied to the moral sense only in a particular applicaton. In general it seems to mean an immediate perception of an individual existing object but not a sense-perception but rather a synopathetic appreciation. Thus according to the doctrine of [Empedocles?] discussed [DeAnima A.V.?] like is know only by like and thus the soul must be a mist of all elements. Now to this kind of knowledge (10, 410 b 3) the name synesis is applied. In

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