Abstract

This chapter discusses Ockham's assumption of mental speech (AMS). It shows that mental terms such as man or fly signify naturally because their extension is determined in terms of two non-intentional relations. The chapter presents different propositional acts one by one, after briefly sketching Ockham's model of mental acts as laid out in the Ordinatio, where he distinguishes largely between acts of apprehension and acts of judgement. It also discusses evident judgements about singular mental propositions and general mental propositions. The chapter talks about concept acquisition. The acquisition of concepts depends on intellectual acts of intuitive cognition, and acts of intuitive cognition depend on acts of sense perception. Ockham introduces intuitive cognition, which has the role of making evident judgements possible. It has been shown that an act of intuitive cognition is exactly of the particular thing to which it is causally related, and of nothing else.Keywords: assumption of mental speech (AMS); concept acquisition; intuitive cognition; mental propositions; Ockham's model; Ordinatio

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