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Lull's Book of
Propositions
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4 - Figure V
Figure V. is perceived by the senses in two figures, as with the previous ones.
The first of these has the virtues written in blue and the vices written in red around its circumference.
The second has three circles, each one displaying all the virtues and vices in Figure V.
As with the previous figures, this figure should be made from some material so that its circles can
be revolved easily on one side, and the three circles of Figure T.
on the other. The senses of sight and hearing perceive the propositions attributed to V. and from all
this the imagination gathers a universal which it universally
transmits to the intellect. And while the imagination shows this figure to the intellect, the intellect
with the light of the imagination specifies V. in a particular way in
its intellectual light, and subsequently gathers all of V. universally by using T. and the propositions
of V.T.. And as Figure V. is firmly held in the intellect while
investigating some particular issue regarding V., the intellect forms its judgment as it strips itself
of the imagination and senses and then descends to the
particular issue and produces the species that it must necessarily produce in its likenesses. Therefore
the intellect understands that red V. is the privation of the
likenesses that S. produces from itself and its powers in blue V. Thus, the things said above clearly
show that figure V. is to be investigated and judged in
accordance with the intellect's understanding of it.
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