Psychic functions. Intuition, representation, judgment (7)

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Return to the Brentanian theory of two objects in its two components: 'T2O' and "T2O"
Alternative reformulations
Mark Textor: DRM (" Dual relation of the mental ") and DOT(Dual Object Thesis)
DRM: " every mental phenomenon has an object and is conscious "
DRM corresponds to 'T2O': A mental act is conscious if it is self-presenting, plus "T2O": Any presentation directed on f-ing a is also directed upon a (co-presents a)
Translation questions, lexical problems: " presentation " and " Vorstellung
German, English, French: the dittography of (re)presentation
"Presentation" and "representation" two words for one (" Vorstellung ")
The dittography of (re)presentation is not only interlinguistic (passage from German to English or French), it is intralinguistic (it concerns German itself)
The two rival translations of " Vorstellung " correspond to an ambiguity in German
First attempt to disambiguate Vorstellung
Husserl's Psychologische Studien zur elementaren Logik (1894): "Über Anschauungen und Repräsentationen "
Husserl's thesis: " Vorstellung " covers both " Anschauung ", intuition, and " Repräsentation "
Definition of " Repräsentation
Resumption of the distinction in Recherches logiques
Reminder of French and English translations of the " Vorstellung - Repräsentation " pair: "représentation-idée" and "représentation représentative", "représentation" and "re-présentation" (French), " presentation " and " representation " (English)
Philosophical archaeology of the distinction between " presentation " and " representation
Alleged sources: Ward, Bradley
The real source: Hamilton's Notes on Reid
Analysis of Hamilton's " Note B ": Of presentative and representative knowledge
The Hamiltonian distinction between " Presentative or Immediate or Intuitive cognition " and " Representative or Mediate cognition
Interlude: analysis of the two meanings of "representation" in French: presentation (présentification) and reiteration
Everything that is "re-presentable" is "re-presentable"
Rousseau's critique of representation: Jacques Derrida
Back to " Note B
Hamilton's archaeological work
The medieval source: the distinction between " Intuitive and Abstract knowledge
Definitions of cognitio intuitiva : " cognitio rei praesentis, ut praesens est " and cognitio abstractiva : " cognitio rei, non ut praesens est "
Hamilton's main source: the Conimbres lecture (Conimbrincenses)
His favorite reference: Durand de Saint-Pourçain
Analysis of Durand's texts
Hamiltonian praise of scholasticism
Where a quotation from Leibniz leads to a novel by LeSage