Inventio subiecti. The invention of the modern subject (8)

Olivi and attributivism
olivian "foundations" of "subjective certainty"
- 1) I have an intuition of myself as substance, i.e. as subject and as principle, through an "experiential and quasi-tactile" feeling of myself as a permanent subject
- 2) this intuition is completed by a second intuition, carried out in and by the same "internal sense", that of my acts as so many "attributes" of the subject I am
Intuitive knowledge of oneself as a subject: text analysis ;
The unity of the subject: against the duplication of the subject into sensible subject and thinking subject, and its indefinite multiplication: sensible subject, thinking subject, willing subject, desiring subject, suffering subject, Olivi maintains the identity of the operative power and of the supplicant who (calls himself) "I"
This identity is the expression of the absolute simplicity of the soul
Olivi and Jaakko Hintikka's KK-thesis: Kap ⊃ KaKap (if a knows that p, it follows that a knows that a knows that p)
Olivi and the general principle of attributivism*: PGA*: the soul feels and thereby knows that it is the principle and subject of its acts

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