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Several stages of discours (ways of reasoning)

Giordano Bruno (1546 – 1600), The journey through Bruno’s division thinking is brilliantly recorded by MICHEL (1962/1973).

He described several stages of discours (ways of reasoning) in Bruno’s life. Bruno started in a Neo-Platonic mood with nine components (influenced by Raymond Lull). This initial number was reduced to five in 1583, then consisting of: sensus, imaginatio, ratio, intellectus, and mens. Another reduction (to four) took place in his book De l’Infinito universo e mondi (On the Infinite Universe and Worlds, 1584). The remaining four were earlier determined by Pythagoras and presented by Aristotle in his De Anima (On the Soul):

MICHEL, P.H. (1962/1973). The Cosmology of Giordano Bruno. (trans. R.E.W. Maddison). Hermann, Paris; Methuen, London. Cornell Univer-sity Press, Ithaca, New York.

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