ABSTRACT

Odomankoma is the total intuition or insight of the nature and cause of the Thing. Of the three divine or universal postulates, Onyame appeared under examination as the perception or understanding of the psycho-physical basis of the Thing; Onyankopon, the central or intermediate postulate, appeared as the conception, through memory and imagination, of the active principles underlying experience of the Thing. The notion of Odomankoma is similar to the perception of Onyame in this respect, that it, too, comes by a sort of feeling, an intuition with the character of immediacy, without discursive reasoning, or inference. The notion comes to us by sheer force of intellection, that is to say, by a complete and total insight or inner knowing of those essential qualities which the experience of being had at first brought to our knowledge by relation, comparison, and analysis under the guidance of imagination.