Ideogenesis Analysis

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Every individual starts with ideas or knowledge that adapts everyday and in everything that surrounds us. What are the things that will consider in making idea? In what process do we really need in order to visualize our intellectualization? Each one of us has its ability to sense everything, not just by our senses but it is having the process of Ideogenesis. It will be discuss afterwards and together we can understand the procedures of it. In the previous discussion, the first line that Aristotle wrote in the metaphysics is that “All men by nature desire to know”. As for Aristotle, it is the desire of man to recognize because there's such information that made the man satisfied, or even in his sample afterwards of taking pleasure in sight …show more content…

In Aristotle’s book, De Anima, he explains the manner of the approach wherein it is how one achieves intelligence. The process begins when from the very essential which is getting something from our experience since Aristotle once stated that “there is nothing in the mind without passing through our senses”, which means that reality or truth must be experienced and for that the senses is the primary element within the technique. However, Aristotle grouped the senses into two: the external and the internal. The external senses are senses that we’re using in our everyday living such as our sense of sight to which we see an object, a sense of hearing to which we hear a sound, sense of smell to which we smell its scent, a sense of touch to which we tactile to determine its texture and sense of taste to which we determine its flavor. External senses have the capability to do by its own. It is also passive by nature. On the other hand, internal senses in which the gathered data from the external senses are fit together. Common sense which the different objects from the external senses are all combined, followed by imagination wherein it imitates the combined objects of senses, next is the creative imagination wherein some things in the sensed object as a whole was changed into something differently, next is sense memory where the object is stored for reminiscing and finally, the estimative sense wherein it figures out in terms of measurements and the similarity of the