 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
 | Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Harry M. Bracken, Thomas Reid, Sir William Hamilton - Knowledge, Theory of - 1094 pages
...Locke, book 4, chap. 2. " There is a part of onr knowledge," says he, " which we may call intuitive. In this the mind is at no pains of proving or examining, but perceives the truth as the eye does light, only by being directed toward it. And this kind of knowledge is the clearest and most certain,... | |
 | Edward Stillingfleet - Antitrinitarianism - 414 pages
...without which we cannot attain Knowledge or Certainty. By Intuition you mean Self-Evidence. For you fay, in this the Mind is at no pains of proving or examining, but perceives the Truth as the Eye doth Light on/f f'y being direfted towards it. For hence you muft fuppofe Self Evidence \ to to be in the Ideas... | |
 | Jean-Michel Vienne - Philosophy - 1991 - 300 pages
...à condition que sous le rapport de l'affirmation, elles soient claires et distinctes. 2. £. 4.2.1. «In this, the Mind is at no pains of proving or examining,...Truth, as the Eye doth light, only by being directed toward it. ». 3. Regulœ, III, AT p. 369. 4. £. 4.2.1, et 4.19.8, auquel répond 4.19.13 : «Light,... | |
 | David Wisdo - Philosophy - 1993 - 168 pages
...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. 15 Like Descartes, Locke believes that intuitive knowledge is the most certain kind because it presents... | |
 | Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz - Mathematics - 1996 - 528 pages
...or disagreement of two ideas immediately by themselves, without the intervention of any other. ... In this, the mind is at no pains of proving or examining. . .the truth[. As the eye sees light, so] the mind perceives, that white is not black, that a circle... | |
 | P. Novak - Philosophy - 1996 - 296 pages
...Intuition..." (IV, II, 1). Locke calls the knowledge acquired by this mode of epistemic evaluation "intuitive knowledge": for "...in this, the Mind is...Truth, as the Eye doth light, only by being directed toward it" (ibid.). I will spell out Locke's position on intuitive knowledge in detail in Section 7.4.2,... | |
 | Leon Chai - Religion - 1998 - 181 pages
...in terms of the certainty they afford. For him, "intuitive knowledge" enjoys the highest certainty: "For in this, the Mind is at no pains of proving or...Truth, as the Eye doth light, only by being directed toward it" (p. 531). Because it is less immediate, "demonstrative knowledge" carries less certainty:... | |
 | Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers - Philosophy - 1998 - 992 pages
...short of the highest degree of Certainty.125 We have intuitive knowledge, according to Locke, when 'the Mind is at no pains of proving or examining,...Truth, as the Eye doth light, only by being directed toward it.'126 And so he agreed with Descartes that we have a noninferential, intuitive knowledge of... | |
 | Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers - Philosophy - 2003 - 676 pages
...knowledge; not only of probability, but of evidence. First comes intuitive knowledge, in which the mind 'perceives the Truth, as the Eye doth light, only by being directed toward it.' Intuition 'leaves no room for Hesitation, Doubt, or Examination.' The second degree is... | |
 | Y. Masih - Philosophy - 1999 - 606 pages
..."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." Here we see the agreement or disagreement as directly as we see the light with our eyes. Thus we at... | |
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