a) Subject—is the human intellect capable of reaching its

transcendent object as it is in reality without any deformity

b) Object—Is reality intelligible? Does reality have that
fundamental aptitude of becoming an object known as it is
nature?
Philosophy of Knowledge must show that the intellect attains
reality as it is in eternal world, which means that the
aforementioned reality is capable of being known, that is
intelligible.

3. Definition of the Philosophy of Knowledge

a) Nominal Definition
Historical facts about names. In the course of History, many
names have been given to the study of the philosophy of
knowledge. Even nowadays there is no definite name
universally accepted will designate the nature and scope of
the study.
There are several factors for this situation like: a) not all
authors agree in the scope and method of this science, and
they name their work and research according to how they
conceive and how they focus their study; b. the second reason
may be, because there is no well-established treaty on this
matter that can show the path to the right solution of the
problems embodied in our study.
Names: Logic. In its different denomination as Material
Logic, Real Logic, Applied Logic, with the most outstanding
authors as Morandini, Vanni, Liberatore, Zigiiaga, Pasch,
Gonzales etc., and many authors from the society of Jesus.
The reason for the selction of this name by so many
author is a historical one. Before Emmanuel Kant, this part
of philosophy did not exist as a systematized study and many
of the questions discussed in the philosophy of knowledge
formed a part of the study of logic.
Logic was chosen as the most suitable subject to discuss
these questions because of the structure of syllogism which
can be studied under two aspects: first, the correctness of
logical inference which forms a part of Dialectics which
presupposes the study of Propositions. Second aside from pure
logical consideration of syllogism, there is another aspect
which would be included in any good and proper reasoning:
that is, the aspect of truth of the proposition which is
called the material aspect of syllogism.
Epistemology (Coffey, Noel), Noetics (Morandini),
Criteriology (Nercier, Jeanierre), Gnoseology (Zamboni),
Defensive Metaphysics (Gredt) are also names given to this
study.
Though etymologically these names designate the theory
of knowledge, they cannot be accepted to denominate this part
of philosophy because they are either too broad and they
signify the theory of knowledge in general, or they restrict
this study to a single part of it.