- Whether the separated soul knows singulars?
Whether the separated soul knows singulars?
Objections
❌ Objection 1 : It would seem that the separated soul does not know singulars. For no cognitive power besides the intellect remains in the separated soul, as is clear from what has been said above (Question [77], Article [8]). But the intellect cannot know singulars, as we have shown (Question [86], Article [1]). Therefore the separated soul cannot know singulars.
❌ Objection 2 : Further, the knowledge of the singular is more determinate than knowledge of the universal. But the separated soul has no determinate knowledge of the species of natural things, therefore much less can it know singulars.
❌ Objection 3 : Further, if it knew the singulars, yet not by sense, for the same reason it would know all singulars. But it does not know all singulars. Therefore it knows none.