(August 14, 2009 at 10:47 am)Eilonnwy Wrote: Evidence please. Not your own assertions.I have already explained why in other posts. Go back and read; intellection is apprehension; abstract actualisation, also called things like "visualisation", "imagination", or simply understanding, which means the same as Greek episteme, to stand near or under something abstractly - in other words, actualising a thing as far as possible in your mind. God, being pure actuality, the purely actual principle of all potencies (as I have shown in many posts), is therefore pure intellect; purely actualising, in his very being, but in a much more perfect sense than humanity, because he is not "reifying", "re-actualising", as human intellects attempt to do to understand what already exists, but to the contrary, since he is the transcendent actuality - the creator (actualising principle) of all things- nothing "pre-exists"/transcends him, and so he is exactly informing things through his actualisation, rather than being informed by any other actuality (since there is none other than himself and those things which he himself informs existence to by actualising them). And so, his intellect is strictly active, informative, rather than being composed of both potential and active intellect as in the case of human intellects.
(August 14, 2009 at 10:47 am)Eilonnwy Wrote: Oh joy, psychobabble and you don't even know how to spell actualization.I'm European. Excuse me if Americans corrupted the English language and then expect us to follow you.
(August 14, 2009 at 10:47 am)Eilonnwy Wrote: You do realize that your fancy language impresses no one, that we can understand what you're saying which eventually amounts to a whole lot of nothing. Circular reasoning at it's finest.You have not demonstrated any circularity or fallacy in it. Perhaps you are just unwilling to admit that maybe just because you don't understand it, doesn't mean it has no meaning.
The people who are the most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.
-G. K. Chesterton
-G. K. Chesterton