The basic mechanism of the intellectual cognition in Thomas Aquinas

The article analyses and interprets the basic structure of process intellectual cognition in Thomas Aquinas. After a short chapter on sense cognition, Aquinas?s understanding active intellect is presented, that illumination phantasms abstraction intelligible species by intellect. Special attention given to difference between phantasm species. Consideration possible shows two steps, reception creation concept, inner word or intentio intellecta. that, operations are analyzed, simple apprehension judgment. ends with series questions, pointing problems understanding.