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Prologue — On the mind

  1. Whether the mind, as containing within itself the image of the Trinity, is the essence of the soul or one of its powers?
    1. Whether there is memory in the mind?
    1. Whether memory is distinguished from understanding as one power from another?
    1. Whether the mind knows material things?
    1. Whether our mind knows material things in their singularity?
    1. Whether the human mind receives knowledge from sensible things?
    1. Whether the image of the Trinity is in the mind as it knows material things or only as it knows eternal things?
    1. Whether the mind knows itself through its essence or through some species?
    1. Whether its through their essence or through some likeness that our mind knows habits which exist in the soul?
    1. Whether one knows that he has charity?
    1. Whether the mind in this life can see God through his essence?
    1. Whether God's existence is self-evident to the human mind, just as first principles of demonstration, which cannot be thought not to exist?
    1. Whether the Trinity of persons in God can be known by natural reason?

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