Every given reality implies the thought which apprehends it… - Étienne Gilson

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Every given reality implies the thought which apprehends it. Therefore being is the condition of knowing; knowing is not the condition of being.

Étienne Gilson

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Étienne Gilson (13 June 1884–19 September 1978) was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy.

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Alternative Names: Étienne Henry Gilson

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Philosophy always buries its undertakers.

Up to Descartes' time, and particularly during the Middle Ages, it had always been agreed that philosophy consisted in a transposition of reality into conceptual terms

I maintain, therefore, that just as there is in Cartesianism a methodical idealism, the kind that starts with nosse [knowing], there can be a methodical realism, the kind that starts with esse [being].

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