Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1918

Pencilings in the margin of page 62, Pitirim A. Sorokin, “Three Basic Trends of Our Times,” pp.58-64, Main Currents in Modern Thought, Vol.16, No.3, January 1960

Sorokin: “Though a few voices still intone John Locke’s classical formula, Nihil esse in intellectu quod non fuerit prius in sensu, and its corollary that sensory perception and observation is the only means to scientific knowledge, this theory of cognition has become largely replaced by another theory closer to the new conception of reality.” (Last emphasis by Heath)

Only primary data for understanding the objective physical world of the senses.

“According to this new Integral theory of knowledge, we have not one but at least three different channels of cognition: sensory, rational and super-sensory-superrational.” (Emphasis by Heath)

The rational is supersensory.