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Lull's Book of
Propositions
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5 - Figure X
Figure X. is sensed by the senses like the previous figures.
The first consists of the sixteen terms of X. disposed around its circumference.
The second figure has three circles, each displaying all sixteen terms of X. Like the other figures,
this figure should be made of some material with its own three
circles on one side and the three circles of T. on the other.
Now as the senses perceive figure X., the imagination imagines it together with its propositions and
reduces it to a universal concept as it successively imagines
each of its particulars and then offers it to the intellect. The intellect receives figure X. from the
imagination, and strips itself from the senses and imagination, and
retains the figure in a universal way. Subsequently the intellect receives some particular statement
opposed to some other statement and then produces its
likenesses and unlikenesses by means of directly or indirectly opposed propositions and counter-propositions. Thus the intellect discourses through the totality of
X. with all its propositions considering that if the likeness of any required particular is not found
in the propositions, then it should be sought through its unlikeness
so that the universal is in no way destroyed in the senses, imagination and intellect.
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