"That said, judgments don’t always concern the relationship between two things. That was a mistake of traditional metaphysics. In traditional metaphysics, judgments are usually associated with the soul confirming a propositional statement about two things: such as “fire is hot.” Zubiri states that this is not the case. Not all judgments involve two things. In fact, the most basic judgments, since judgments are merely affirmation of a thing’s reality, involve one thing. Before we can make a judgment about fire causing heat, we make a judgment that that fire even exists. This is called a positional judgment. It’s when you affirm “fire!” or “hot!”"

Xavier Zubiri is a little-known Spanish philosopher who sought to develop a realist Metaphysics that accounted for a dynamic universe. His expertise and critiques of prior Western philosophical paradigms ultimately led him to craft a systematic philosophy that perhaps synthesized all the best elements of each school of thought, whilst correcting for their respective errors. In this series, Will Deatherage explores his seminal work, Sentient Intelligence.

Special thanks to our script reviewers, including:
Dr. Thomas Fowler, President of the Xavier Zubiri Foundation of North America
Marcos Mendoza
Jose Nunes

For more information about Zubiri, check out: http://www.zubiri.org/

Background Music: Confidence in Confidants by Forests Dragons
https://from-the-forest.bandcamp.com/track/confidence-in-confidants
Outro: Inside My Head by ARSNK https://soundcloud.com/arsnkmusic/inside-my-head

View our other series:
Series on Ecumenical Councils: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPnp45TCxDtPeT-lOsnFhGn2bShv0vAoL
Series on Magisterial Authority: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPnp45TCxDtNMKUDRtQ15pZDTBCCj4Xg_
Series on No Salvation Outside the Church: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPnp45TCxDtPUAFb81XCeyFVJ6wCniYzX
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZL0j-bBd_E