 For if we will reflect on our own ways of thinking, we shall find that sometimes the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement of two ideas immediately by themselves, without the intervention of any other: and this, I think, we may call intuitive knowledge.  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 61by John Locke - 1796 - 459 pagesFull view - About this book
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...sometimes the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement of two ideas immediately by themselves, without the intervention of any other : and this,...truth, as the eye doth light, only by being directed toward it. Thus the mind perceives, that white is not black, that a circle is not a triangle, that... | |
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...disagreement of two ideas immediately by themselves, and this, I think, we may call intuitive knowledge. In this the mind is at no pains of proving or examining, but perceives the truth as the eye does the light, only by being directed to it.' (Essay on Human Unilerstanding, b. iv., c. ii., } 1.)... | |
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