They are real, physical entities. How do you know what is "spirit" or what is "divine"?
Or we describe our experience, learn from others, discuss with each other
How do you know when I say "love" you and I think of the same thing?
How do you know when I say "love" you and I think of the same thing?
>Do you need to know the word for chocolate to taste it? The word for sun to be warmed by it?
>>>They are real, physical entities.
That’s not the point of the objection, response or analogy.
>>>Unless you know what the essence is (which requires cognitive function) you can’t recognize the form.
“Knowing” is not always a cognitive function, nor a knowing of forms or abstractions or concepts. To limit knowing to these is well, limiting your knowledge.
Certainly these are necessary for certain discussions and operations. But we can know a great deal without these - and many forms or concepts are even based upon the experience, sense or otherwise.