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Glossary of Terms
(references to De Wijsbegeerte der Wetsidee, unless
indicated.See concordance
for correlation with pages in the New Critique. The concordance
is in pdf format.)
| senses |
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| sensory |
NC II, 582 (open the sensory aspect)
NC III, 38 |
| empirical |
NC I, 29 (cosmic time determines
all of empirical reality), 54 (empirical individuality), 55 (empirical
fact that self-knowledge is dependent on knowledge of God)
NC II, 537, 546 |
See psychical. The psychical or sensory
is one of the aspects of our temporal experience.
The sensory aspect of perceiving does not at all play that preponderent
role in naive experience which the current epistemological opinion ascribes
to it. (NC III, 38).
Dooyeweerd rejects the empiricistic view of reality. He often refers
to the empirical by placing the word in quotation marks. For example,
he says,
The Kantian conception of consciousness has resulted in misinterpreting
"empirical reality" in a functionalistic manner (NC II, 537).
The contrast betwen "a priori" and "empirical"
is useless in the light of the cosmonomic Idea. It assumes a metaphysical
separation between noumena and phennomena (NC II, 546).
The things of concrete experience are not the products of the synthetic
formation of a chaotic sensory matter by means of abstract forms of
thought and intution (NC II, 559).
And see my article “Imagination,
Image of God and Wisdom of God: Theosophical Themes in Dooyeweerd’s
Philosophy,” (2006), where I discuss how Dooyeweerd's ideas
differ from empiricism.
Revised Jul 24/06
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