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7 An empirical concept is the indirect intellectual apprehension of an individual. The intellect can know individual objects only indirectly in the phantasms because individuals are material, with one exception, the int ellect itself; because it is a spiritual individual, the intellect can know itself directly and reflexively. (See Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Part I, Question 86, Articles 1 and 3.)
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Open its the sense-apprehension of an individual reality (in its presence).
5 A phantasm is the mental image of an individual reality (in its absence).
6 A general concept is the intellectual apprehension of essence.
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