By Schubert Ogden
The Notebooks of Schubert Ogden
On Symbolic Reference
According to Thomas Aquinas, "just as the sensing of proper sensibles is always true, so the intellect is always true in knowing what a thing is.... By accident, however, falsitycan occur in this knowledge of quiddities,This would seem to be a remarkable formal parallel to Whitehead's doctrine, that perception in either of the pure modes-presentational immediacy or causal efficacy-is infallible, although error can arise in the reference between them. But, clearly, it isConsider also Thomas's statement: "sense always produces a true judgment in the intellect with respect to its own conditions, but not always with respect to the conditions of things"if the intellect falsely joins and separates" (De veritate, 1: 12). only a formal parallel, since the material meanings involved are different. (De veritate,l: 11).
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