 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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...the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement of two ideas imntcdiateli/ by themselves, toithout the Intervention of any other; and this I think we may call intuitive knowledge ... Such kind of truths the mind perceives at the first sight' of the ideas together, by bare Intuition,... | |
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