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Discipline · in Logic

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Types of Mind

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The classification of cognitions: direct perception, inference, doubt, correct assumption, wrong view, and the rest, and how each is known.

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After the Collected Topics comes the study of what a mind does. Every cognition is sorted: direct perception, which apprehends its object without concepts; inference, which reaches an object through a reason; correct assumption, which is right without knowing why; doubt; and wrong view. The sorting matters because only the first two count as knowledge, and the whole of the tradition’s epistemology rests on the difference.

The pages here will set out the sevenfold classification and the arguments around it.