2. Investigating Particulars


SECTION THREE PART TWO
Investigating Particulars

As the senses, imagination, memory, and will are needed by the intellect in order to rise to universals, as above, so they are likewise necessary for investigating any required particular in the universal, as the intellect descends following the senses, imagination, memory and will  particularly through the terms of the figures and the propositions of these terms so that neither the universal of the required particular is in any way destroyed, nor the terms of the figures, nor their propositions, but rather, they are entirely preserved.

The investigation of particulars in universals is sometimes done with T. alone, sometimes with T.A. together, sometimes by adding figures to T.A., and sometimes with T.S. or by adding figures to T.S., and likewise with all the other figures, always in the presence of T., for otherwise nothing can be done with the figures. And this is done with a greater or lesser number of figures in accordance with the genus and species of the required particular which is discovered in some part of the universal in concordance with other parts of this universal, as it is in concordance with the required particular that it includes, and in opposition to the contrary to this particular.

Just like the goodness of A. influences greatness, and the greatness of A. influences goodness, and as through this likeness, being optimized in greatness and magnified in goodness is produced in the Godhead, likewise the intellect investigates particulars by influencing the will, memory, imagination and senses and vice versa, and does so with the angles and cameras of T. and the cameras of A. S. V. etc. as well as the propositions of T. and the other figures, and finds particulars through the said likenesses and influences by matching one likeness with another and one influence with another so that neither the universal nor any of its parts are destroyed, but rather, all its parts are in concordance for preserving the universal in the particular that must be found in it.

Note also that likewise, for investigating and discovering particulars the intellect must sometimes descend from universal propositions to particular ones and then rise again to universal propositions while it discovers the concordance existing between universal and particular propositions without any contrariety, through the method of affirmation and negation. And in Section Four there is an example given of the said methods for finding  particulars in the universal, namely in the questions as stated in the previous chapter on investigating and forming universals.
 
 



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